Disruption as Storm Barbara starts moving across Scotland
Storm Barbara has started crossing Scotland, causing power cuts, school closures and difficult travelling conditions.
The highest wind speeds are forecast for the Western Isles, Skye, the north west coast and Northern Isles, with gusts expected of 80-90 mph.
Wintry showers and ice have also been forecast for large parts of Scotland.
An amber alert has now been issued for the Northern Isles and part of north Caithness on Boxing Day.
The Met Office has named it Storm Conor and is forecasting winds gusting to 70-80mph - possibly reaching 90mph in some areas.
It also has an amber be prepared warning for Storm Barbara and yellow be aware warnings in place for high winds at the weekend and Monday and wintery showers and ice for large parts of Scotland on Friday into Saturday.
Wind speeds on Friday have been recorded gusting to 74mph on South Uist, 67mph in Stornoway on Lewis and 66mph on Fair Isle in Shetland, the Met Office said.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf has urged people to check weather forecasts and travel information before setting out on journeys over the next few days.
He added: We shall be continuing to monitor the situation over the festive period including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day to make sure that the most reliable and relevant information is being communicated to people as early as possible.
Weather has been causing some disruption across Scotland.
Almost 120 school sites involving a total of more than 8,500 pupils, are shut in the Highlands on Friday and ferries to the Northern and Western Isles have been cancelled.
Some train services have also been affected, and all bus services on the Western Isles have been cancelled.
Power cuts have been affecting properties in parts of Lewis and South Uist in the Western Isles, around Knockando in Moray and Assynt and near Loch Broom in the Highlands.
Electricity company SSE said it was working to restore power.
The firm is also on yellow alert, meaning it is increasing the levels of its frontline and support staff that are on stand-by and moving engineers, plant and welfare facilities to the areas it expects to be affected by the storm.
In Edinburgh, high winds have led to the closure of St Andrew Square, along with city centre entertainment such as the Starflyer, Big Wheel, climbing wall and Scottish market.
Friday was due to be the last day of term for pupils in the Highlands. The council posted details of the closures on its website.
CalMac said all sailings to the Outer Hebrides and between the islands have been cancelled for the rest of the day. The ferry operator has warned of the possibility of further disruption.
Operations director Drew Collier said: There is little sign of let-up over the next few days, however, so the disruption is highly likely to continue right across the weekend and Boxing Day - although each and every sailing will be kept under constant review and we will assess weather windows as and when they present themselves.
I cannot stress strongly enough the need for customers to continue to pay close attention to weather forecasts over the festive weekend and to keep a frequent eye on our service updates - these are constantly updated and reflect the most accurate picture of services.
For Storm Barbara, the Met Office has issued an amber warning for the Northern Isles, the Western Isles and Northwest Scotland.
It suggests gusts of 80-90 mph are likely in the afternoon and evening.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has flood alerts in place in many parts of Scotland.
Network Rail warned that some train services will be affected. They included a reduced service between Glasgow and Oban.
A similar reduction in services will apply between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh, as well as Inverness to Wick.
ScotRail has listed the services it expects to be disrupted.
Meanwhile, in Orkney, a bakery on Westray has offered to make its industrial ovens available for cooking turkeys for anyone on the island who finds themselves without electricity while trying to make Christmas dinner.
Brown's Bakers has its own generators - which can be used to power the ovens.
Louise Drever, who runs the business with her husband Duncan, said they could potentially cook up to about 60 turkeys at one time.
Ferry operator CalMac said it was able to make a delivery of Christmas turkeys to the Isle of Barra before its services were disrupted.
Queen In The Western Isles (1956)
Isle of Skye, Portree, Bara & South Uist, Scotland.
GV. At Kyleakin, the royal party on the jetty. The Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with the Lord Macdonald's daughter and son (Lord Macdonald, Lord Lieutenant for Inverness-shire). SV. A notice written in Gaelic and English Welcome to the Isle of Skye. GV. Royal couple in an open Hillman car, with the Duke of Edinburgh driving, while the royal driver sits in the back.
LV. The village of Portree. LV. The town square of Portree, with the royal party meeting local dignitaries. SV. Crowd watching. CV. Queen and Prince Philip driving off and waving.
LV. Dunvegan Castle. SV. Queen meeting members of the Macleod clan. SV. Crowd waving flags. GV. Queen and Duke meet Mrs Mary MacNeil aged 87 in Castlebay Square, Barra. CV. Mrs MacNeil's face.
LV. Crowd on the sea shore at Barra, the castle in the background with flares burning round the walls. TV. The royal barge coming alongside the jetty at South Uist with Princess Anne sitting on the canopy, Princess Margaret is also in the picture. SV. Prince Charles standing on the jetty with pair of binoculars lingering down his legs - too big. SV. Princess Anne dressed in slacks, leans in rather sophisticated fashion against the jetty railings - this was on her sixth birthday.
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Rocket Plan Angers Islanders (1957)
South Uist, Hebrides, Scotland.
GV. Benbecula aerodrome with the name board in foreground and aeroplane in background. GV. Crane loading sand onto lorry at airfield. GV. Hut under construction for RAF (Royal Air Force) personnel. SCU. Men putting in windows on RAF hut. GV. Pan down to RAF huts. Pan down to men unloading beds from a lorry into RAF quarters. GV. Open countryside with a few houses at South Uist, & GV. Part of sea and sheep in picture. SV. Sheep with a lamb and the sea in the background. They stop and look at us. LS. A croft, & SV. With woman at doorway. CU. Old woman crofter. GV. Open country, part of the proposed range. GV. From land out over the sea where the rockets will go. LV. Guided missile on the ground ready for firing at Patrick Airforce Place, Florida. Missile is called the Snark. GV. The rocket fires and starts to leave the ground, camera follows it as it takes off. LV. Pan, a line of men digging. The side of the main North-South Road - they are digging holes for the laying of water pipes. Pan to roadway. SV. Other men working on the side of road. SV. Small building marked Bank of Scotland. LV. On roadside, shrine. CU. Statue of the Virgin Mary holding Holy baby inside shrine. LV. Meeting taking place at the house of Father Morrison. Interior, crofters and priest. Meeting is for objection to the proposed rocket range. CU. Crofter representative. SCU. Father Morrison taking to the crofters, sitting on his right is Mr Neil Mackinnon, solicitor, making notes. Pan down to solicitor making notes. CU. Father Morrison talking. GV. Morrison's church and house attached to each other, crofters walking away after meeting. GV. Construction going on on new jetty at Loch Carnan. TV. Large tub of concrete having been lowered by crane, concrete is dropping out for spreading. Construction crew are RAF men. This will be doubled by the civilian contractors when they move in. CU. Man looking through theodolite. SV. Man spreading concrete with shovel. GV. Part of pretty countryside at Uist with sheep in foreground. LV. Pretty scene, man riding white horse along road and another horse walks alongside. House in background.
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Places to see in ( Isle of Barra - UK )
Places to see in ( Isle of Barra - UK )
Barra is an island in the Outer Hebrides,Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by a short causeway. In 2011, the population was 1,174. The area of Barra is roughly 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), 11 miles long and 6 miles wide. The main village is Castlebay (Bàgh a' Chaisteil). A single track road runs around the coast of the island where the flattest land and houses are, the interior of the island is hilly and uninhabited.
The west of the island has white sandy beaches backed by shell-sand, machair and the east has numerous rocky inlets. Kisimul Castle at Castlebay is on a rock in the bay, giving the village its name. A smaller medieval tower house, Dun Mhic Leoid, can be found in the middle of Loch St Clare on the west side of the island at Tangasdale. The highest elevation on the island is Heaval, halfway up which is a prominent white marble statue of the Madonna and Child, called Our Lady of the Sea, which was erected during the Marian year of 1954. The predominant faith on the island is Catholicism and the Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of the Sea is immediately apparent to all who arrive at Castlebay.
Other places of interest on the island include a ruined church and museum at Cille Bharra, a number of Iron Age brochs such as those at Dùn Chuidhir and An Dùn Bàn, and a range of other Iron Age and later structures which have recently been excavated and recorded. Barra is connected by a causeway to the smaller island of Vatersay, population 90.
Barra's tiny airport, near Northbay, uses the beach called An Tràigh Mhòr (The Great Beach) as a runway. Planes can land and take off only at low tide, so the timetable varies. Voted the world's most stunning landing spot, Barra's airport is claimed to be the only airport in the world to have scheduled flights landing on a beach.
Ferries to Oban, Lochboisdale, Tiree and Eriskay are run by Caledonian MacBrayne. Castlebay is the main port from which ferries sail to Oban on the Scottish mainland, Tiree and Lochboisdale (Loch Baghasdail) in South Uist. The mainland crossing takes about 5 hours. A vehicular ferry travels between Ardmore (An Àird Mhòr) and Ceann a' Gharaidh in Eriskay (Èirisgeigh). The crossing takes around 40 minutes.
The fish factory, Barratlantic, in Northbay is a major contributor to the island's economy and the Hebridean Toffee Factory in Castlebay is one of the few manufacturers on Barra. Tourism provides the main income for the majority of islanders; the high season lasts from May to September. Thousands of people visit the island every year, the busiest times being during Fèis Bharraigh & BarraFest in July. The Dualchas Heritage and Cultural Centre is located in Castlebay, next to Castlebay Community School. It has various exhibitions each year, and is open throughout the year.
( Isle of Barra - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Isle of Barra . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Isle of Barra - UK
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Uist Tramping Song / My Ain Hoose
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South Uist HAARP Scotland
South Uist Haarp Station disguised as a Weather Station and promoted lies by the BBC.
Originally Aired 2009. Disgusting.
After the frequent deaths of many Whale pods along the coast of this small scottish western isle i began to wonder why, until i saw this programme helped answer this query, luckily recorded for you to see and make up your own mind. I have studied physics, Biology and Environmental Science Degree and feel i am knowledgeable enough to make these claims. To me, it is damning when a supposed reputable company like the BBC litterally tells huge lies in the aid of geo engineering, and aid the extinction of Earths precious species and ecosystems using ionospheric heaters, similar to the original Haarp system built in laska and overseen by British Aerospace technicians whooriginally designed this seriously damaging technology. Now with Aberystwyth and other similar smaller stations dootted about the UK (& globe) in order to supress, modify and bastardise the natural weather systems using massive power (global warming...) to operate in the region of many Giga watts. Haarp technology in use on South Uist - The Broadcasting company that screened this video in 2010 on a nature documentary suggested the device it showed was a doppler radar, far from the truth, you only have to take note of all the groundings of whales on this island since this facilitiy was built and that a recent earthquake shook the island, unheard of normally. There were photos of this on flickr but soon as comments regarding haarp were made, the photos dissapeared overnight... Seems that the TV companies are in league with the government and PTB in order to pull the wool over our eyes, fool us with more disinformation. Stop paying your BBC licence now, it is being used to help kill the planet we know and love, and to fool you with lies. I`m sure by now (2019) many people are already suspicious of how the seasons and weather are changing so fast, unnaturally so. Support the XR Extinction Rebellion any way you can, the earth we know is being lost, made dry and barren for exchage of dollars, with lack of thought for wildlife, the oceans, our children and of course the ecosystems they all live. Not so long i even had DEFRA managers coming to talk to me regarding this, whey were very concerned and felt like their work was being undermined by their superiors `Core Defra` who would not give answers to their findings of loss of biodiversity (2013)
From 2010-11-30 - British Bull Company Cuntry File 2009
This video had been edited to try to prevent censorship as previously occured.
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Music - Waiting For Tomorrow - Hawkwind (Hugh Lloyd Langton)
Winchelsea 21April 2015 HD
A successful 3 days of field work in Winchelsea, East Sussex, UK, with the University of Southampton on the Medival Port of Winchelsea Project.
Magnetometry survey and Power Coring done so fare
The Winchelsea Project
Team members:
Thomas Dhoop, Dr Fraser Sturt, Rodrigo Ortiz, Carlos Garrandes, Massimo Secci
Taylors Third Trout
Catching Brown Trout on the Isles of Lewis
A View from the Highest Point on Eriskay
The Birlinn of Clanranald: Alan Riach at Loch Eynort
Before his evening recital at Kildonan Museum, South Uist, Alan visited Loch Eynort, from which the birlinn sailed, with some friends, and read some short extracts from his English version of the famous poem by Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
Paul Strand in the Hebrides
Paul Strand visited South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in 1954 and his visit resulted in the book Tir a'Mhurain. This collection of photographs capture a moment in time of rural island community life and the wild open landscape in which they lived. Three of the sitters from the Hebrides series that were photographed as children talk about meeting Strand and their memories of South Uist in the 1950s.
Transcript:
Uist Transcript
John MacLellan (John): I can remember the day that the photograph was taken and us looking out the window and the way it was, we just thought it was some other friend of the family that we were still to meet because we had never heard of Paul Strand.
Jean MacLellan (Jean):
Land of bent grass,
Land of barley,
Land where everything is plentiful,
Where young men sing songs and drink ale.
If I had as much as two suits of clothes,
A pair of shoes and my fare in my pocket,
I would sail for Uist.
Katie Buchanan (nee Mackenzie) (Katie): It was in 1954 and I was one of the youngest ones in Paul Strand’s book. I was only four at the time. It had been snowing and the snow had melted so I was outside testing out my new welly boots and this man comes round and takes my photo.
Jean: Mary, the youngest of the family, and this is John, our brother, and myself. I’m just peeking around the curtain. I would have been 10 and John would have been eight.
John: We must have got brushed up, we’ve all got our hairs combed and brushed. I think I was fascinated looking through the window.
Katie: I was only speaking Gaelic at the time. That was a bit of a hindrance, I suppose. I can remember him putting this black cloak over himself and I was scared of the man because I was young at the time. So he put this head square round my head so that nothing was moving of my hair seeing as I had long hair at the time.
Jean: I am the third youngest of 11. It was nice being a member of a big family.
Katie: There’s one of the old neighbours and I think that he had even her hands in the book there. They really looked old and weather-beaten. They did all the work in these days. Every housewife had the uniform of an overall on to keep the other clothes they were wearing during the day clean.
It was a huge camera I think he would have had. How he was managing to get all this stuff around especially if they were walking most of the time.
John: He was the man who would take you in the boat to Eriskay and I think he went to Barra as well. But he was renowned to be a great seaman. If it was difficult to get across, he was the man to get you there.
Katie: The grandparents that are in the photo here are Angus and Kate Mclean. It would have been taken on the same day. They weren’t old but as Paul Strand himself says, the weather was showing on their faces. They were always living with us like every old parents were at the time. Well the houses were all thatched and it was over 100 years old when I lived in it anyway. And the small windows and thatch of the 'marram' (long grass) that was taken off the 'machair' (fertile low-lying grassy plain). They were nice and cosy and warm there was only the three rooms in them anyway. The electricity and the water they had come by the late 40s to us. It was a blessing when the electric, I suppose, came.
On the Islands there was very little money and very little work of any kind other than crofting and that was all that was going on. As soon as you were able to stand on your own two feet you had to make your way away to the mainland.
John: It’s looking back on a totally different era. Because of the way he looked at the world and thought about the photographs in South Uist, he made sure he was going to get the record of the culture as it was.
Jean: I treasure this book really for the ones that are in it. It brings back memories.
Sailing Scotland's Hebrides part 1
Scotflight's Benbecula North Uist complete
This is Version 2 a more polished version I hope. Used Serif's word read as I dont talk so good and added music hoping to convey the some of spirit of the Western Isles. Continuing my Odyssey of the Western Isles arriving at Benbecula, North Uist, as I breath a little life into Benbecula. The JCB is engaged in beach tidying ( the Islands council have invested in the latest robotic gizmos), NATO truck going from Rocket Range to Airport of a classified nature, If I divulged I would have to etc ;-) The visitor in KR 200 stopped to photograph the JCB being a avid JCB twitchier. Airport worker in Landrover spending lunch hour intending to soak up some rays. Welcome to my alternate World lol.
Further Information
The Dark Island tune written by Ian MacLachan a local from Benbecula
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Additional Scenery to FSX , Scottflight for FSX and PLaysims VFR Photographic Scenery Vol. 4 Western Isles plus REX2 OD Textures.
Bulverton House, 5 Star Luxury Self Catering in Sidmouth, Devon, England
On the rural edge of Sidmouth yet still within a mile of the sea front and centre of this beautiful regency town and its fine beaches, Bulverton House offers three unique five star self-catering suites equipped and furnished to a luxurious standard, while maintaining a highly competitive tariff structure. Bulverton House is Sidmouth's Premier self-catering establishment, offering flexible accommodation with two of the Suites having one King Sized bed each (which are perfect to accommodate either a couple or a single guest) while our Sampson Suite has two King Sized bedrooms (one of which is a zip & link bed which further extends the accommodation options). Bulverton House has well-lit on site off road designated parking spaces for all our guests, High energy efficiency, Security and Fire safety levels are achieved in all our accommodation Suites. We have holiday weeks running Friday to Friday & Saturday to Saturday but shorter breaks are available, we open all year round but unfortunately our accommodation cannot accept any Pets and is strictly Non-Smoking. For any further information and to book please contact - Geoffrey Roe.
Flora MacDonald's Way
THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO THIS VIDEO WAS MARK KNOPFLER'S SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA; THE AUDIO TRACK WAS DELETED BY YOUTUBE AS A RESULT OF THE NEW COPYRIGHT LAWS THAT ARE MAKING HAVOC ON THE SITE... SO, I HAD TO REPLACE THE ORIGINAL AUDIOTRACK WITH ONE OF THE RIDICULOUSLY FEW MUSIC PIECES AVAILABLE HERE - IF YOU CAN, PLEASE WATCH THIS WHILE PLAYING THE ORIGINAL TRACK!A biographer's trip through the isles of Benbecula and South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, to reach the landmark birthplace of legendary scottish heroine Flora MacDonald, preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the days after the jacobite rebellion of 1745. Flora MacDonald was born in the now-abandoned village of Milton, South Uist, in 1722 and the ruins of her supposed childhood home are now a sort of sacred place for everyone interested in scottish history. After the rebellion, the village of Milton practically emptied out of its inhabitants, following the cruel repressive actions of british government on the higland people: all that is left of that ancient place you can see in the movie. When Dr.Johnson and his faithful biographer James Boswell met Flora MacDonald in the isle of Skye, some 28 years after her great deed — the salvation of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the redcoats that were hunting him throughout Scotland — the great writer said of her, her name will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
She indeed saved the Prince by her intelligence and virtous recklessnes, and the device of dressing him up as a spinning woman, thus disguising him as a simple maidservant in front of the british officers' very eyes and passing undisturbed from Uist to Portree, on the isle of Skye, has become the stuff of legend. The famous song Over the Sea to Skye, in fact, tells the story of the Prince and Flora's crossing on a small boat from Uist to Skye, in the Inner Hebrides, where they parted with tenderness, never to meet again.
After having lived many other incredible adventures — including imprisonment due to her part in the Prince's escape, a migration to North Carolina and a close encounter with pirates on the way back to Scotland — Flora and her husband took up residence in Skye; Flora died at Kingsburgh on Skye in 1790, by her own will in the same bed in which Bonnie Prince Charlie (and Samuel Johnson) had slept.
Missile Firing (1961)
Royal Artillery Guided Weapons Range at South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
M/S of men in protective suits and helmets walking over to a fuel tank on a lorry; one of the men fixes a fuel pipe to the tank; the other end of the hose is attached to a large missile on a truck.
Various shots as soldiers remove the missile from the truck with a crane and attach the war head; a man is seen making final adjustments to the mechanics inside the weapon. Commentator says the missile is 45 ft long and weighs 5 tons.
The fuel tanker drives off, followed by the men in protective suits. Commentator explains that the fuelling operation is so dangerous it is done in two stages: we see the decontaminated protective suits being put on by a second group of men; the head man seems to check the others for any visible signs of contamination. Various shots as they fit the fuel hoses onto the missile.
Mix into M/S of the missile being raised into position as a soldier nearby presses some buttons on a large remote control set. M/S of the missile in a vertical position against the sky; mix into M/S of the missile base on a launching pad in a field. Behind some sandbags in a shelter we see two soldiers with a control box; one is on the phone saying the countdown (natural sound). When he says Fire! the other man presses a button marked Push to Fire on the control box. Very brief M/S of the base of the rocket firing up and starting to move off.
Note: print used for telecine transfer is quite badly scratched; neg is incomplete. On file are general notes from the Weapons Range and this missile in particular, known as The Corporal Weapon System.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
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Traditional Mingulay Boat song from Outer Hebrides
Just heard this wonderful street musician play this beautiful melody whilst strolling down Pitlochrie High Street
LoveontheLongestDay- Margaret & John Lorne Campbell of Canna. Scotland
To celebrate #LoveontheLongestDay, enjoy a selection of images , depicting Love in its many forms,taken from the Margaret Fay Shaw Photographic Collections, owned by the National Trust for Scotland and housed in Canna HOuse on the Isle of Canna. Accompanied by Gaelic love songs recorded by John Lorne Campbell in the 1930s, in the Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides Lewis and Harris - Part 1
Join me as I tour the Outer Hebrides islands of Lewis and Harris, taking lots of landscape photographs as I go.
In part one of a series of landscape photography vlogs on the islands, I visit the world famous Luskintyre beach and show you how I approach this landscape on what would normally be considered tricky conditions for landscape photography.
Known for it's beautiful pastel colours, I try to capture the essence of the place and produce a couple of images which I am very happy with.
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Music from the Western Isles - Beanntan na Hearadh
The Harris Hills in the Outer Hebrides may not be as high or outwardly spectacular as the Cuillins, but their geological origin is much more ancient - and their weathered and uncompromising aspect, together with their unspoilt remoteness, gives them a feeling of other-worldliness, timelessness and solitude.
The North Harris Range (which includes the Uig and Park hills in Lewis) was intruded into the even more ancient Lewisian Gneiss around 1.7 billion years ago - towards the end of the Laxfordian Event.
The origin of the hills in South Harris is different - it is a complex region of various (now largely metamorphosed) igneous rocks formed around 2.2 billion years ago (and called The South-Harris Igneous Complex). This produced a starkly beautiful rocky, almost alien, landscape - best seen along the so-called Golden Road on the east side of the island.
This tune is a celebration of the hills - their majesty, mystery and loneliness. It is in the style of an urlar and simple variation for a contemporary Ceol Mor tune.
Ceol Mor, sometimes (and mistakenly) called piobaireachd (which actually means piping of any type in Gaelic), is the original music of the highland pipe (as opposed to the dance-music and marches, most often heard today, but introduced much later). It is one of the most important types of Gaelic music, consisting of long, subtle and beautiful melodies, sometimes of 10 to 20 minutes in length. Its greatest exponents were the MacCrimmon Clan of Skye, who where active mostly between the 16th and 19th centuries (and whose lands are easy visible from Harris). It consists of a basic melody called the Urlar and then a set of other related developments of this - these may include variations and/or (more usually) progressively more complex ornamentations of the basic tune. Although many Ceol Mor pieces have an underlying rhythmic backbone, they are usually played fairly freely, not in strict time (similarly to many traditional Gaelic songs).
In this case, the Urlar consists of two lines, each repeated and an optional one line (again repeated) variation. Other sections from the standard development types can be added by the player as desired. The tune is here played on the Scottish Small Pipes with a gentle chordal accompaniment (to hear it in all its glory, it should, of-course, be played solo on the Great Highland Pipe - preferably on a isolated Harris mountain-top with a spectacular view as night falls and the mist starts to roll in).
The pictures and time-lapse videos are of the Harris Hills and their companions in the South of Lewis.