After lunch on MV Cuma, we entered Soay Sound at slack water and passed to the east
of Stac Dona.
Ian and I could not help but stop to take photos. The
horizon looked very flat but the scale of the stacs dwarfed the...
...size of the swell at their bases and...
...we were paddling right through Soay Stac from east to
west... Yikes! It would be fair to describe the conditions in the arch as
somewhat lively!
It was with some relief that we all got through safely and
were able to look back at these great stacs, which are known in Scottish sea
kayaking circles as the Gates of Hell!
We were now on the west side of Soay Stac and were about to
leave the coastal waters of...
...Hirta and Soay to
paddle across the open Atlantic, some 168km west of the Scottish mainland. We
were now truly kayaking at the edge of the World! St Johns in Newfoundland was a mere 3128km
away to the WSW.
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