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I left my cottage in Benbecula on Thursday and headed down to Eriskay for the last 5 days of my journey.\u00a0 My main reason for coming to the Hebrides was to spend a few days on Eriskay and photograph the ponies and the people who manage them.\u00a0 When I was here in June the ponies were up over the hill and difficult to find.\u00a0 We had tried with a small group to hike up the hill to search for them but had no luck \u2013 though we did see them in a pasture in town with the help of Triona who is my contact for this visit as well.\u00a0 In the winter the ponies are brought back into the area around the village and much to my delight I came across a small group of them coming up the road by my cottage when I arrived.\u00a0 As the sun was marginally peeking out from the clouds I was able to get a few photos though I need far more!\u00a0 As a major storm was heading to Scotland I knew I would not have much chance of photographing today and I was right!\u00a0 I walked around for a few minutes and took a few photos of the road near my house but\u00a0 my little sojourn didn\u2019t last long as the storm came in with force and I have been confined to the cottage ever since.\u00a0 This has been billed as a storm of the century and it appears that central Scotland has taken the worst of it.\u00a0 All trains have been cancelled, many ferry crossings cancelled as well as flights in and out of Edinburgh and Heathrow. We are still very windy and rainy but so far no power outages.\u00a0 We will see what tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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