Saturday, April 27, 2024

In the Isle of Skye, we lodged at this Air B & B accommodation. Bookings can be made under the genre "Tiny Homes". Within the building you have all the trappings for a short stay. 

  And this is the view of the loch from the house. It's virtually like land's end to get there as the distance from the main road is about 2 miles on a one-lane country road. Only companions on the way were grazing sheep which came running to the car as we aped their bleating sounds.

Portree town centre

Portree is a small town on the Isle of Skye. This row of brightly-coloured houses in Portree Harbour is the most photographed site here. 

While getting into the car and wondering where to eat lunch, a kind passerby overheard us and  suggested 1820, a pub set in an old church building with live folk music.

Pints of hand-drawn draft Guinness stout. Never tasted such creamy and smooth Guinness before!

1820 pub grub, like this fried chicken, tasted the best of pub grub I have ever eaten.

Shot of Lealt Falls taken from an awkward angle. 

Mealt Falls cascading down Kilt Rock for some 90 m. If viewed from the front, columns of basalt rock formations which resemble the pleats of a Scottish kilt will be seen. 

Quiraing is a series of rock formations which resemble a prison, a needle and even a table. The best way to see the different rock formations is by hiking or trekking.  Found  on the Trotternish Escarpment on the northern most peninsular of the Isle of Sky, Quiraing was formed when a thick layer of flood asphalt spread over the peninsular destabilising the weak rock formation underneath and causing a series of landslides. Pools were also formed.

This pic and the one below present different rock formations of Quiraing which are best experienced on a trek or a hike

It is through million years of volcanic and seismic activities that such rock formations came about. The Old Man of Storrs is situated on the Trotternish Loop but we didn't undertake the hike of about 4 km to see it up close.

St Andrew's Church in Fort William near where we had a take-away lunch in the car

This is where the Corpach Shipwreck of Caol lies near Fort William.

This is the Corpach Shipwreck aka the Old Boat of Caol lying on the shore of a loch below Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK. It is believed that the ship was moored in a harbour in Fort William when at night a fierce storm brewed and it was yanked from its moorings and ended up here since 2011. It was built in 1975 as a fishing boat and christened 'MV Dayspring'.  

 

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