The Sun Shines on Scalpay
An island on which the population was forcibly established amid inauspicious circumstances is now enjoying a period of prosperity.John MacLeod visits a community which lacks only a cemetery.
Scalpay's busy North Harbour: the island owes much of its present prosperity to the late and gifted Captain Roderick Cunningham, head of the locally based coastal shipping-company
The MV Canna backs away from the Kyles-Scalpay slip, wallowing a little before puttering purposefully towards the Scalpay jetty. I stand forward on the car deck, watching her bows surge towards the Scalpay terminal. Apart from myself and my cycle she is carrying only a small van and a truck ladden with telegraph poles. The crossing takes less than three minutes. Her crew do not even trouble to raise the ramp on such a calm day.
