Paddleboarding spots in Na h-Eileanan Siar
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SeaPlocropol put-in (Drinisiadar)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis is a second put-in at Plocropol, a Bays township on the shore of Loch Phlocrapoil, one of the many small, island-studded sea lochs on the east side of Harris. It sits further along the shore towards Cluer than the other mapped Plocropol slipway. It is tagged on OpenStreetMap simply as a slipway.
SeaPlocropol put-in (Drinisiadar)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandPlocropol (also spelled Plocrapol) is a Bays township on the shore of Loch Phlocrapoil, one of the many small, island-studded sea lochs of the cnoc-and-lochan coast on the east side of Harris. The Ordnance Survey names the settlement Plocrapol but records the adjoining loch as Loch Procrapoil, a spelling variant of the same name. The put-in here is a mapped slipway on the Golden Road.
SeaOrasaigh put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway serves Orasaigh (Orinsay), a crofting township on Loch Shell (Loch Sealg) in the Pairc peninsula on the Isle of Lewis. The loch's mouth is sheltered by the island of Eilean Liubhaird a short distance east near Lemreway, and the Shiant Islands are visible from the shore.
SeaPort Pheadair slipway (north)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway sits on the B891 coast road on the east coast of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, about 1km north of Port Pheadair and close to Lochcarnan. It opens onto the Sea of the Hebrides, the stretch of water between the southern Outer Hebrides and Skye.
LochUig hill-loch slipway
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway sits on a small hill loch in the Uig moorland of west Lewis, an area of the Outer Hebrides let by sporting estates for hill-loch trout and salmon fishing. The nearest named waters on current mapping, Loch Cleite na h-Oidhche and Loch Faoghail Charrasan, lie several hundred metres away, but the loch at this exact point is not named on OpenStreetMap.
LochUig hill-loch slipway (north)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway sits on a small hill loch in the Uig moorland of west Lewis, about 90 metres from another mapped slipway (way/1137215585), likely a paired landing point on the same loch. The nearest named waters, Loch Cleite na h-Oidhche and Loch Faoghail Charrasan, lie several hundred metres away.
SeaPort Pheadair slipway
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway sits at Port Pheadair, a small named locality on the east coast of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, close to Lochcarnan. It opens onto the Sea of the Hebrides, the stretch of water between the southern Outer Hebrides and Skye.
LochUig moorland slipway
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway lies on remote moorland south of Uig Sands on Lewis's west coast, close to the line of the Hebridean Way long-distance trail. The nearest mapped water is a small unnamed loch a few hundred metres away, and no named water body is recorded at the coordinate itself.
LochLoch na Beirighe slipway
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandLoch na Beirighe is one of the trout and salmon lochs of the Eishken Estate in Pairc, on the remote south-east coast of Lewis. The estate runs boats on its principal fishing lochs and also lists watersports among its activities across its 43,000 acres.
SeaRubha Bàn slipway (Eriskay)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway sits at Rubha Bàn, the settlement at Eriskay's north-western tip closest to the causeway that has linked the island to South Uist since 2001. It faces the Sound of Eriskay, the tidal strait the causeway crosses, opposite the Ludag slipway on South Uist.
SeaRubha Bàn slipway (Eriskay)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway sits at Rubha Bàn, the settlement at Eriskay's north-western tip closest to the causeway that has linked the island to South Uist since 2001. It faces the Sound of Eriskay, the tidal strait the causeway crosses, opposite the Ludag slipway on South Uist.
SeaRubha Bàn slipway (Eriskay)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway sits at Rubha Bàn, the settlement at Eriskay's north-western tip closest to the causeway that has linked the island to South Uist since 2001. It faces the Sound of Eriskay, the tidal strait the causeway crosses, opposite the Ludag slipway on South Uist.
SeaNa Gearrannan put-in (Càrlabhagh)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway serves the bay below Na Gearrannan (Garenin), a former crofting township on Lewis's west coast restored as a blackhouse heritage village at the end of a single access road. Nine thatched blackhouses were restored here by 2001, and the settlement fronts an open Atlantic bay that sources refer to only as the village bay, with no separately mapped name found.
SeaMiabhaig nam Bàgh put-in (Drinisiadar)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis is a second put-in at Miabhaig nam Bàgh, a small township on the shore of East Loch Tarbert grouped with neighbouring Direcleit and Ceann Dibig in local croft records. The name is Norse in origin, meaning roughly 'narrow bay'. It is mapped on OpenStreetMap as a slipway.
SeaMiabhaig nam Bàgh put-in (Drinisiadar)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandMiabhaig nam Bàgh is a small township on the shore of East Loch Tarbert, grouped with neighbouring Direcleit and Ceann Dibig in local croft records. The name is Norse in origin, meaning roughly 'narrow bay'. The put-in here is a mapped slipway reached by a short service track off the Golden Road.
SeaGoat Island Slipway (harbour approach)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis way maps a small-craft slipway fitted with a cable winch in Stornoway Harbour, on the Newton side near Lews Castle grounds. It appears to record the same physical Goat Island Slipway as the neighbouring OSM node (node/1391011951), roughly 50 metres away.
SeaMarbhaig put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis is one of several mapped slipways serving crofts around Marvig (Marbhaig), a hamlet on the southern shore of Loch Marvig near the mouth of Loch Erisort on Lewis's South Lochs coast. It sits slightly further east than the other three mapped Marvig slipways in this set.
SeaMarbhaig put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway is one of several small crofters' landing points around Marvig (Marbhaig), a hamlet on the southern shore of Loch Marvig, just south of where Loch Erisort meets the sea. The wider South Lochs area is dotted with more than 200 small fresh and saltwater lochs.
SeaLùdag put-in (Taobh a' Chaolais)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandLudag is a small settlement at the southern tip of South Uist, about 3.5 miles south of Lochboisdale, where a concrete slipway gives access to the Sound of Eriskay, the strait now crossed by the causeway to Eriskay. Before the causeway opened in 2001 this slipway was the mainland end of the ferry crossing to Eriskay.
SeaLinsiadar put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis slipway sits at Linshader (Linsiadar) on Lewis's west coast, at the entrance to Loch Ceann Hulabhig (Kinhoulavig), an inlet of East Loch Roag opposite the Callanish Standing Stones. A second slipway also recorded as a Linsiadar put-in lies about 3 kilometres to the north on the same loch system.
SeaLinsiadar put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis second slipway, about 3 kilometres north of the other Linsiadar put-in recorded in this area, also opens onto an arm of East Loch Roag close to the village of Linshader (Linsiadar), which looks across the loch towards the Callanish Standing Stones.
SeaLiceasto put-in (Geocrab)
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandLickisto (Liceasto) is a small township on the Golden Road in the Bays of Harris, overlooking Loch Stockinish, a sea loch on the southeast coast of South Harris about 9km south-southwest of Tarbert. Lickisto Blackhouse Camping, the well-known local campsite beside this put-in, offers kayaking and paddleboarding directly on the loch.
SeaLeumrabhagh put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway serves the harbour at Lemreway (Leumrabhagh), on Loch Shell (Loch Sealg) on the south coast of the Pairc peninsula, Isle of Lewis. The island of Eilean Liubhaird lies just offshore and shelters the harbour, and the Shiant Islands are visible across the Minch.
SeaLeumrabhagh put-in
Na h-Eileanan Siar, ScotlandThis concrete slipway is at Lemreway (Leumrabhagh), a small crofting and fishing village on the shore of Loch Shell (Loch Sealg) in the South Lochs area of Lewis. The village was cleared in 1843 and later resettled; several other cleared settlements lie further round the loch shore.
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