The twin-engined Loganair Saab 340 bumps down on the runway at Tiree’s dinky airport. Moments later, I'm greeted by Calum Smeaton, a weather-sculpted Fifer, who leads us out into the blustery, clear blue-sky morning.
We hop into his mud-spattered Ford 4X4, where Daisy and Duke, the friendly collies, are keen to get in on the act, and head off towards Scarinish, the island’s main settlement, and Gott Bay, one of the world’s most fabulous beaches and a mecca for wind-sport aficionados.
Smeaton, and partner Rosie - a corporate lawyer, originally from Glasgow - have spent the last two years, designing and building an eco-home on this treeless and wind-whipped Hebridean island.
