After months of toing and froing, emails galore and lots of visitors looking into this and that, the Island finally concluded its sale to new owners.
We are pleased to announce as per the Press release interpreted by Katherine Hay of The Scotsman, below.
We are going to stay and support the new owners until the 31st October then depart to Camastianavaig on Skye. We get the keys on the 21st of August and Look forward to it. We will no doubt flit between the two places during this period.
The Blog will continue, we most likely will change the name but only after we leave or when I get my “saved” posts sorted out. I have one or two up my sleeve!!!
We will take this opportunity to thank everyone who have helped us over the years, the many contractors and good friends pressed into service, without you all it would never have worked.
I've been living on the island since April 2002, alone for the first 5 years, my partner L joined me in 2007. We manage the Island for a Danish family who bought the Island in the early 90's.
Their hopes for the Island are to make it self sufficient supporting its inhabitants and that is where we come in.
We look after the stock, 3 holiday cottages, machinery, boat and of course the visitors.
It is pretty challenging but it is a beautiful place to live and work, we love it and strangely enough we love it even more in the depths of winter when all is quiet apart from the gales and rain.
We do a bit of fishing, stock work, stalking deer and loads of other stuff. We have good support from lots of people whom we have met over the years and have become involved in the Island. Too many to mention here but keep an eye on the blog, they'll be there for sure in the future.