Day 55 Mar 5th Eriskay to Canna

 A quick look at the long range weather show some heavy Storms hitting midway through next week.  

It's  a little early to predict how long they will last or how severe, (the prediction has lowered from F10/12 to F8/9  but we should look for somewhere safe with plenty of shore based entertainment. by tuesday.

 Meanwhile we are off to Canna today.

Leaving at 1000 hrs carefully leave the anchorage leaving green bony to port out beyond the headland using the transit markers on a back bearing.

Then set a course due east for the North side of Canna. Keep to the north of the Island to the eastern end and turn South towards Canna harbour. There are transit beacons on a track of 233T  to lead us in.

Trip 30nm  

The islands were left to the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) by their previous owners, the Gaelic folklorists and scholars John Lorne Campbell and Margaret Fay Shaw in 1981, and are run as a farm and conservation area. Canna House, one of two big houses on the island (the other being Tighard), contains John Campbell's important archives of Gaelic materials that were donated with the islands to the nation.[5] Since then the NTS has engaged in new initiatives to attract new residents and visitors to Canna.

Canna is renowned for its wildlife, including sea eagles, golden eagles and puffins. Recently, peregrine falcons and merlins have also been sighted. The island is also inhabited by a number of rare butterfly species. In the nearby waters one can spot dolphins and smaller whales.

Canna is noted for its tiers of basalt pillars that rise over the eastern half of the island and the sea cliffs that dominate its northern shore. The highest point on the island is Càrn a' Ghaill (Scottish Gaelic for rocky hill of the storm) at 689 feet (210 m). Another point of interest is Compass Hill. Its peak is at 456 feet (139 m) and sits on the eastern edge of the island. It is made of volcanic rock called tuff, and it has such a high iron content that the compass of nearby ships are distorted, pointing to the hill rather than north