Isle of Barra - East Coast

A tour along the Eastern coast and Northern tip of the Isle of Barra. The tour includes Barra Airport. The airport is unique, being the only one in the world where scheduled flights use a beach as the runway.

The beach is set out with three runways in a triangle, marked by permanent wooden poles at their ends. This almost always allows the Twin Otters that serve the airport to land into the wind. At high tide these runways are under the sea: flight times vary with the tide.