Animal tracks.

The paw prints were only small, about the size of a cat, or perhaps smaller. I'm told there are no mink or other small predators on the island like stoat or weasel, since they would decimate the ground nesting birds. I still can't help feeling that this is not an otter.

Any ideas?

Friday we went along to the Ringing Stone. A glacial erratic dumped on the shore after the ice age. If you give it a good belt with a hard stone it sounds like a bell.

On the same beach we found cowries amongst the limpets and periwinkles. A surprise to me.

There were an amazing number of wild flowers, bird's foot trefoil, lesser spotted orchids, tormentil, and a host of others I couldn't recognise. The birds were happy in their natural habitat. Peewits, Godwits, Sandlings, Plovers, Lapwings, Oystercatchers, as well as huge numbers of gulls.

At the end of the beach we found a Broch, the foundations were in good enough shape to see the entrance and guard chamber as well as the double walls and the internal stairs. It must have been a rough life.

The rain stayed off, but the wind got quite strong at times, and I forgot to put sun cream on.

Nose is peeling now.