Mingulay boat trips & wildlife spotting

13/04/2025

Beautiful morning in Vatersay with anchored in the bay ☀️⚓️🛳️ HX Expeditions

07/04/2025

Seo Màiri Chaimbeul (Màiri Aonghais Nèill Bhig) a’ toirt fiosrachadh do dh’ Ealasaid Nic na Ceàrdaich bho Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba mu obair an earraich a dhèanadh iad ann am Miughalaigh. Rugadh agus thogadh Màiri air an eilean agus chaidh an clàradh seo a dhèanamh ann an 1960.
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Here’s Mary Campbell being interviewed by Elizabeth Sinclair (Lisa Storey) of the School of Scottish Studies in 1960 about the work which would be carried out on the island of Mingulay each Spring.
She says that they grew potatoes, turnips, oats, barley, cabbages and carrots, and that they used seaweed and manure for fertiliser. She also mentions that they would bless the seed they were planting, and then recites the blessing they would say. Mary was born and raised on the island.
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Photo of Mary Flora Campbell (Nighean Iain Chlachair) taken by Margaret Fay Shaw in South Uist in 1931. Photo supplied courtesy of the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh Central Library, via Am Baile.

24/03/2025

Looking forward to this weather and this view 🥰

18/03/2025

Nice sunrise 🌅

23/01/2025

Lovely flight leaving Barra Yesterday afternoon

08/01/2025

Beautiful morning

31/12/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 🥳

25/12/2024

🎄🎁 Merry Christmas from the Mingulay Boat Trips Team!! 🎄🎁

🥂🥳 We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year 🥂🥳

We appreciate all our customers we couldn’t do what we love without you all.
Thank you for always supporting us 🥂🥳

18/12/2024

20/11/2024

Cold morning ❄️🥶

16/10/2024

10/08/2024

22/07/2024

The view from the top of Mingulay ☀️

21/07/2024

What a view 🥰

17/07/2024

17/07/2024

This is the house of ghosts on Pabbay. Ronald Morrison, originally from Uist, built the house in 1890/91. He was one of the four Pabbay fishermen who were lost at sea in the 1898 Pabbay fishing disaster when the boat, Lizzie, didn’t come home.

They were fishing with a boat from Mingulay, 5 miles south of Barra Head in an area known as ‘The sea of ghosts’ when a south westerly storm started. They headed for home and the Mingulay boat made it but the Pabbay boat was never seen again.

After the island was abandoned in 1912, the Vatersay fishermen would use it as a base but started complaining about strange noises in the house. Fearing it was haunted, they didn’t go back. Eventually the roof collapsed and the Vatersay men retrieved the beams to make byres with for their cattle. They refused to use them in the construction of their houses for fear of the ghosts of Pabbay going with the beams and haunting their houses.