We're on Luskentyre Beach right now on
Harris, which is a really nice big
golden sand beach with
crashing waves... and no people!
Yeah! It's, it's not easy
to
see such a nice beautiful beach
with no people.
Maybe we have
ten
in
a few miles long beach.
Maybe ten people.
We've noticed that the beaches
on Harris
are golden
while on Barra, the beaches are very white.
I think I prefer Barra actually.
We'll see. This is the first place we can see on Harris
so far, and this is just the beginning
of our trip in Harris and Lewis
so we've got another couple of days to find our
favourite spot in here!
We're at a blackhouse village on
Lewis right now. I don't know how to pronounce
the name.
Gearrannan? Gearrannan?
It's a popular tourist
destination anyway.
You get to visit these traditional
blackhouses which is what
people in the Outer Hebrides used to live in.
These blackhouses have been restored since the
last residents moved out in the
1970s. So
you can get a look into
what life used to be like for people who lived
here.
Because there are no trees,
or very few trees anyway, on the island,
they would burn peat
for fuel
for their fire. The origins of this blackhouse village
are from the late 17th century.
Traditional way of life
continued beyond the 1950s
but then the residents here were
ageing and they couldn't do all the maintenance that
is needed to maintain these blackhouses
so
in 1974, the remaining residents
moved to new council houses close by.