Qualla: Bayble Island https://qualla.com/bayble-island en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bayble Island https://qualla.com/bayble-island Bayble Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/bayble-island/ From shore, Bayble Island looks like one island. From most directions it really is - a single dark hump pushed out of Bayble Bay on the south coast of the Eye Peninsula. But come at it from a particular angle and the illusion breaks: there are two islands here, Eilean Mòr Phabaill (Big Bayble Island) and Eilean Beag Phabaill (Little Bayble Island), separated by a narrow gap and bound by perspective into one. The hamlets of Upper and Lower Bayble overlook them from the green slopes above, the kind of villages that have looked seaward for centuries.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/7/e/bayble-island-wp/gf7e-bayble-island-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bayble Island: The Eye Peninsula https://qualla.com/bayble-island/ Bayble Island sits at the southern end of Bayble Bay - in Gaelic, Pabail Bay - on the long southern shore of the Eye Peninsula. The peninsula juts east from the main body of Lewis, tied to it by a low neck of sand at the famous Braighe. Bayble itself, both Upper and Lower, is one...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/7/e/bayble-island-wp/gf7e-bayble-island-the-eye-peninsula.mp3 0:06 2 full Bayble Island: Two That Look Like One https://qualla.com/bayble-island/ The geography is a quiet trick. Eilean Mòr Phabaill - the bigger of the two - and Eilean Beag Phabaill - the smaller - lie close enough together that from the village above, or from a passing boat, they merge into a single silhouette. Gaelic place-names sometimes encode geologica...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/7/e/bayble-island-wp/gf7e-bayble-island-two-that-look-like-one.mp3 0:06 3 full Bayble Island: Rats, Gannets, and the Open Atlantic https://qualla.com/bayble-island/ The island is uninhabited and stays that way. Rats are believed to live on it - thought to have arrived from a shipwreck, the same folklore that explains the rats on the Shiant Isles further south, though whether the story is history or invention is anyone's guess. Above the wate...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/7/e/bayble-island-wp/gf7e-bayble-island-rats-gannets-and-the-open-atlantic.mp3 0:06 4 full Bayble Island: The View from Upper Bayble https://qualla.com/bayble-island/ There is no causeway, no ferry, no reason to set foot on Bayble Island. Its role is to be seen, not visited - a fixed point in the geometry of the bay, a landmark for boats heading in and out, a foreground for the dawn from Upper Bayble. The smaller hamlets along this coast have ...

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