Laig

On Sunday, after a brisk walk to the real Massacre Cave, we headed to Laig Beach to join most of those left on Eigg, a party of about 100, including around 20 musicians, for a tradition adopted from Eigg ceilidhs – a ceremonial burning of the festival stage.

Weird and wonderful: Scotland's Away Game music festival Luke Bainbridge 2010

In one of the greatest examples of TV crossovers ever - the 'Maverick' episode "Hadley's Hunters" - a bartender offered Bart Maverick the use of Josh Randall's sawed-off shotgun "Mare's Laig".

Archive 2009-03-01 Toby O'B 2009

Laig; but the closing twilight prevented me from ascertaining whether it also contained the characteristic univalves of the deposit, and whether its shells, -- for they seem identical with those of the altered shales of the _Ru-Stoir_, -- might not be associated, like these, with reptilian remains.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

I have not yet procured what I expect to procure soon, -- sand enough from the musical bay at Laig to enable me to make its sonorous qualities the subject of experiment at home.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

We mark the talus widening at its base, and expanding, as on the shores of the Bay of Laig, into an irregular grassy platform, that, sinking midway into a ditch-like hollow, rises again towards the sea, and presents to the waves a perpendicular precipice of redstone.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

I explored the shores of the island on to the _Ru Stoir_, and thence to the Bay of Laig; but though I found detached masses of the reptile bed occurring in abundance, indicating that its place lay not far beyond the fall of ebb, in no other locality save the one described did I find it laid bare.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Leaving, however, these oysters of the Oölite, which never net inclosed nor drag disturbed, though they must have formed the food of many an extinct order of fish, -- mayhap reptile, -- we pass on in a south-western direction, descending in the geological scale as we go, until we reach the southern side of the Bay of Laig.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

We leave behind us the musical sand, and reach the point of the promontory which forms the northern extremity of the Bay of Laig.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Pabba, and thence to the shore of the Bay of Laig.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

I spent some time beside the Bay of Laig in reëxamining the musical sand, in the hope of determining the peculiarities on which its sonorous qualities depended.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829