Isle of Sky

The Isle of Skye was our adventure yesterday! It took three hours to get there from our cabin in Glencoe but driving three hours here is not a hardship! The views along the entire route were amazing! We saw lots of Loch’s and mountains and gorgeous scenery.

Our first stop on the Isle of Skye was the village of Portree, where we had a seafood lunch. Karen and i had the raw oysters and assorted local fish and it was really good!!

Next we drove to Fairy Glen it was amazing!! It actually reminded me of the Teletubbies set but on a more awesome, fairy like, magical scale! 🤗 There were goats that carved little foot paths all along these little hills and rocky crags and Fairy Rings and rock Cairns

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present. Cairn – Wikipedia

The road to get to Fairy Glen should’ve been marked with a sign at the beginning that said “Good Luck!”. It was a one lane narrow road with small pull off’s on either side every few hundred feet, but there were so many twists and turns and little hills on the road that you could barely see if a car was coming so you just had to punch it, and hope that you didn’t run into a car around the corner!🤣😳 Imagine it’s like a big game of leapfrog (kind of ) you go for a little bit, pull over another car passes through. you go for a little bit someone else pulls over you pass through. You get it…it was very stressful to say the least but we made it and it was so worth it!

If you ever go, when you come upon the first cars that are parked at Fairy Glen, keep going down the road because that’s not the best part of the glen. It’s just around the corner about a quarter of a mile and you will see more parking along the road and amazing hills to walk!

Leaving the Fairy Glen, going back out on the same road, was a bit of a challenge. There was a hill coming down into the glen where cars were coming down and cars are trying to go up, there was no pull off and it was a huge cluster!! Karen hopped out of the car ran up the hill to stop traffic on the other side of the hill from coming down✋🏼 oddly enough all of these holiday goers from different countries obeyed a 17-year-old and didn’t try to come down the hill 😳😳 it was awesome! anyway we got on our way to our next destination and we were laughing about the one lane road and how terrible and stressful it was as we turn… on to the next one lane road!!!😳😳 We just about crapped ourselves! As we’re driving up the road, it wasn’t terrible, until we reached the first turn. We got a sinking feeling because up the hill coming down we’re about five tour buses! We are in a queue of cars waiting to go up the hill. From the back seat we hear Karen say “F-it let’s turn around” and George and I said “I totally agree I was thinking the same thing” and we hightailed it out of there because it was not worth the stress of going 26 miles on a one lane road to get to the next attraction!! So instead we headed to Old Man of Storr

The two lane road leading there was heaven!! We parked along the road and walked up the first hill, it was socked in with clouds so we could just make out a bit of it. Karen hiked up the next section to se if she could get a better pic, my legs were beat and george was sweet enough to stay back with me. Unfortunately Karen couldn’t get much better photos, but she got some awesome ones of the view which i will include below.

Our next stop was Kilt Rock. A gorgeous cliff with and awesome long waterfall that goes into the ocean!

After our last stop at Kilt Rock it was around 6pm and time to head home.

Long day, we were pooped! 😴😴

Enjoy the pics!