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As the sun sank to the west of Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis the grey rocks of Lewisian gneisss began to glow red.
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Paddling under these great cliffs we basked in the radiated heat that had built up during the day.
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The sun finally set on the western horizon, below which our destination, St Kilda, still glowed in the last of the day.
30/05/2008