This is the causeway from Eriskay to South Uist. It was only opened in 2001. Before that, you have to take a boat across. Eriskay was once very sparsely populated, with only three families on the island, but became a dumping ground for people tossed off their land during the clearances of the Highlands by greedy landowners. The population was heavily Catholic and as the island had no church, priests from Daliburgh would be rowed across by boat from a location now known as priest's point.