You will be disappointed if you book a trip to the Scottish borders if your relatives were from the Outer Hebrides.
At the beginning of the summer it was even drier, with drought conditions for some of the Outer Hebrides.
They were part of the cargo on the SS Politician, which sank off Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941.
The Outer Hebrides Transport Group said removing road equivalent tariff (RET) from freight would lead to a 175% increase in travel costs from April.
"This indicates that the wave power resource off the Outer Hebrides is even better than what was thought to be the case, " said Mr Vogler.
The collectors' items were part of the cargo on the 8, 000-tonne SS Politician, which sank off the shores of Eriskay, in the outer Hebrides, in 1941.
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Kaylee McIntosh, 14, from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, drowned after becoming trapped under a boat during a training exercise in Loch Carnan in the Outer Hebrides in 2007.
The previous year Fowlis, who grew up in North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, became the first Scottish Gaelic artist to appear on Later... with Jools Holland.
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The mysterious archipelago, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986, and has since become the subject of ornithological study, archaeological fascination and popular intrigue.
The tugs are expected to arrive on Saturday at the Village Bay inlet on the east coast of Hirta, the main island in the group, 50 miles west of the Outer Hebrides.
Bird haven Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, which is also the headquarters of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and the Dunes Coastal Park in the Outer Hebrides have also been short listed for the Best Environment Project award.
But if the aircraft in question, known as Trumper, Piper and Laima, make it to Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, as their owners hope, they will be the first pilotless planes to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed safely.
He said he was supportive of the DUP's recommendations for the implementation of a scheme similar to the rural fuel duty relief scheme recently introduced for the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, the Islands of the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly.
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