Stroma

From Thurso Bay, we motored across to Stroma. I had been motoring for much of the way from the Summer Isles - clement weather has its drawbacks.

Entering Stroma harbour was a bit tricky - it's tiny, and there is a considerable eddy current just outside it. We chose to go in an hour or so before high water, and then let the boat dry out.

While we were there I got a chance to grease the prop, replace its anode, and check the CopperCoat (which looks pretty good, I think ..)

Stroma was abandoned in the early 1960s, just after the harbour was built. Local folklore has it that the wages from building the harbour financed the final exodus ...