Earlier in the year whilst paddling in the company of Wenley, around the Strathaird Peninsula of Skye from Elgol to Kilmarie to get some photos for the guidebook, we came across a young lamb marooned at the back of a small gully on the rocky coastline. Anxious not to leave it to it’s fate, I decided to attempt to rescue it.
I must confess at this point to having experience dealing with sheep and lambs. As during my formative years, growing up on the Island of Lewis, I was a crofter’s son and we had a flock of 20 Hebridean black faced sheep on the family croft.
After wading ashore, I caught the lamb quickly as he was very weak and obviosuly starved. With him safely tucked under my arm and his heart doing ten to the dozen, I scrambled out of the gully and up on the moor above. Luckily his mother was grazing jut a couple of hundred metres away. A happy ending!
My hero!!! A good effort Macleod!