Image: Sound of Gighay - geograph.org.uk - 648155

Description: Sound of Gighay A secluded sound between the remote Hebridean islands of Hellisay and Gighay. Narrow, rock-bound entrances at both ends open into a sheltered lagoon. Martin Lawrence (in The Yachtsman's Pilot to the Western Isles) says that the flood tide either enters the sound from both ends, or it runs right through from SE to NW, or it does both, the former at springs and the latter at neaps. He also says that both entrances are choked with rocks, and, "Each visiting yacht seems to find more rocks, or perhaps the same rocks in different positions." The view is of the NW entrance, from Hellisay.
Title: Sound of Gighay - geograph.org.uk - 648155
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Author: John Hughes
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