Monday 24 September 2012

Spin and Skim


Here is Easdale, a short ferry-crossing across the Firth of Lorn, an island that had a long tradition of quarrying, but has now hosted the World Stone Skimming Championships since 1997. Yesterday saw this notice in place


and the crowds gather to watch many competitors take part where once stones were hewn on a large scale.


The entrants had plenty of smaller, ideally-shaped stones from which to choose and then to give them


strong spin and surface skim to take them up to 64 metres across to the back wall. Excerpts of the preparations, and from the event itself, appear on the BBC Website and is a must-see for those who like to witness people taking pastimes and making passions. If I recall correctly the narrow channel from Seil to Easdale is less than the distance achieved by some of the stone-skimmers.

Scottish Islands Explorer - plenty of stories to spin

1 comment:

David & Margaret Gartside said...

ga(From sunny Spain)
I used to be very good at this when the kids were small. Wish we had been there to have a go!

Thanks for daily items - always an enjoyable part of our daily self-briefing

David Gartside & family