After lunch we snoozed for a bit then walked back up through the village towards...
...
the gap between Connachair and Oisebhal. On the way we passed some unusually shaped stone enclosures...
...at
An Lag Bho 'n Tuath.
We then followed a line of ceitean upwards towards the still distant skyline...
...getting hotter all the time...
...so frequent stops to admire the view below us...
...were the order of the day.
At last we approached the edge of the World and looked over...
...to Boreray and the stacs.
We posed on the edge for each other's photos.
It was at this spot that the St Kildans would lower themselves on ropes over the cliffs to catch fulmars. We could hardly bring ourselves to look down...
...peering over the edge, we were looking down...
...on the highest sea cliffs in the British Isles.
This is the sea level view of the cliffs under Conachair from our 2008 trip.
Brada Stac in the foreground is 165m high which gives some sense of the scale. The highest cliffs are actually behind us.
