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  • Looking to Scarp Island and its Rocket Post

    Scarp is a small now uninhabited island. It lies just 200m at low tide from Harris on the west coast, near Hushinish. On the path to a beach I bumped into a couple who told me the story of its postal service by the pioneering German rocketeer Gerhard Zucker.

    Approach to Mheilen beach
    Approach to Mheilen beach

     

    From the cliff path
    From the cliff path

     

    Sunset on Mheilen beach
    Sunset on Mheilen beach

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