Askernish

We hopped on the ferry early that morning from Arriskay over to, uh, south Uist to Lochboisdale, which we would take a ferry out of later on.

But we played Askernish.

I'd heard a lot about Askernish.

DJ had been there very briefly.

I think you flew on that-

I was like, I honestly, like that would've been like bottom one percentile of golf courses in the world-

[laughs]

... that I'd have been like, "Oh, I bet there's a simulator there at Askernish."

Love your show.

By the way, we think today's mystery sound is us searching for our golf balls on a very soggy Askernish today."

Excellent idea.

Uh, Janet from Perth suggests that the splishy, splashy mystery sound is the staff in the palm house at the Botanic Garden sorting out and replacing the giant water lily pads in the ponds.

I mean, the experience and the feel there is just, it's really, really, it's really special.

So kind of keeping it to the off the path theme for a minute, I, as we were preparing for the episode, I remembered that a few years ago you did the, the pilgrimage of sorts to Askernish, which if you're not familiar with Askernish is way up Outer Hebrides.

You got to really want it to get there.

How was it? Was it worth the journey? Would love to hear, you know, your thoughts on all of that.

Then Loganair gets you a cab, basically, [laughs] like a little van, and we got dug in like sardines and drove around the Mull of Kintyre to meet our bus over kind of on the other side.

So that was a bit of an adventure.

And for the Askernish, you know, part of it, we just worked with Loganair and booked a flight to Benbecula.

I rented a van from a local rental place.