This was our last full day. We left Shawbost and visited the ruined broch at Dun Carloway. This is one of the best preserved brochs in Scotland. You can climb the stairs inside the hollow walls.
We drove on to the Callanish Standing Stones, the most famous attraction on the whole island. The visitor centre is closed for rebuilding, but you can still walk around the stones.
There are actually two further sets of standing stones in the vicinity, known as Callanish II and Callanish III, so we walked to them too.
We travelled on to Stornoway in preparation for our ferry home. It's very busy but we found a free car park at the dockside so were able to leave the van there all day.
We walked round the waterfront, then across into the grounds of Lews Castle. It was very busy to start with as there was a Cancer Challenge run going on, but eventually it quietened down.
We watched the afternoon ferry come in, this is the same ship we'd be getting much later, after it's been to Ullapool and back.
We had a very nice walk all the way round the extensive grounds.
Back at the van we snoozed for a bit, then left Oscar and went for a drink in the Crown bar. Following that we bought fish and chips from Cameron's and took it back to the van. It was pretty good.
The ferry was a bit late coming back from Ullapool, and we didn't leave Stornoway till after 10.30. Scott managed to get a couple of hours sleep though, so when we eventually disembarked about 1.30am he decided just to drive through the night all the way home.
We got back to Dunblane about 5am on Sunday.
This map shows all our overnight stops on the trip, I think we covered most of it!