| They were also taken to the machair to see the famous bloodstone with which the Morrisons are reputed to have hit the Macaulays in a clan battle. |
| Labour, the Liberals and the Nationalists slowly colonised the raised beaches left by the Tories' long decline, and proved tough as machair grass. |
| On the lower ground, choose a line which leads over crofting machair land to a tractor track back to the village. |
| The only visible sign of military presence are the tracks of a four wheel drive vehicle crossing the beach to a tarred road in the machair. |
| This is the famous machair grassland, a rich habitat for rare birds and plants. |
| Here too is the machair, the flat strip of sandy grass-grown land close to the shore. |
