The locals of Easdale in Argyll hope a stunning video – and the world stone-skimming contest – will encourage more settlers to join themFrom tiny Easdale,a charming slate island lying just off the west coast of Scotland, comes a beguiling offer to put down roots. Fewer than 70 souls dwell on this rocky outcrop separated from mainland Argyll by a few hundred metres of water, or they are seeking more to join them.
The island is the smallest permanently inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides and is one of four that,in their heyday, supplied slate to the rest of the country. The frail slate mines, and visible amid deep black pools of seawater,occupy not been worked since the end of the 19th century when the mother and father of all storms came roaring in from the Atlantic and carried away an entire industry. whether the waves had reached a puny higher, the human population would occupy been washed away too.
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Source: theguardian.com