Qualla: Erraid https://qualla.com/erraid en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/2/erraid-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Erraid https://qualla.com/erraid Erraid: Introduction https://qualla.com/erraid/ Photo credit Zoe Shuttleworth from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, CC BY 2.0. Davie Balfour starved for almost a hundred hours on Erraid before he worked out he could walk off it. The fishermen who came back to look at him a second time could see what he could not: that the place was a tidal islet, and twice a day at low water you could simply leave. Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Davie's predicament into Kidnapped, knew the island intimately. His father Thomas had quarried it for stone, his uncles built lighthouses on it, and the young Robert Louis had visited often enough to remember the texture of the rock beneath his boots.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/2/erraid-wp/gf52-erraid-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Erraid: A Mile of Granite https://qualla.com/erraid/ Photo credit W. L. Tarbert, Public domain. Erraid is roughly one mile square, attended by a small archipelago of islets with poetic names: Eilean Dubh (two of them), Eilean nam Muc, Eilean Chalmain, Eilean Ghomain, Eilean na Seamair. It lies west of the Ross of Mull, separated by a beach passable on foot at low tide, and ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/2/erraid-wp/gf52-erraid-a-mile-of-granite.mp3 0:06 2 full Erraid: Stevenson's Island https://qualla.com/erraid/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Thomas Stevenson, Robert Louis's father, was one of the engineers who designed and built lighthouses for the Northern Lighthouse Board. Stones for Dhu Heartach were quarried on Erraid and fitted together on the island before being shipped to the reef where the tower was assembled...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/2/erraid-wp/gf52-erraid-stevensons-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Erraid: The Limpet Diet and the Findhorn Connection https://qualla.com/erraid/ Photo credit Toby Thurston Thruston 10:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC), Public domain. Davie Balfour stayed alive on limpets and periwinkles. I knew indeed that shell-fish were counted good to eat, Stevenson wrote in his hero's voice, and among the rocks of the isle I found a great plenty of limpets, which at first I could scarcely strike from their places, not kno...

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