Today started out dark and rainy. Low clouds and mist. Not much to see. It is difficult to get photos out of the bus windows at the best of times. I get reflections and the foreground is flying past so quickly that it blurs. This morning was impossible. Our first stop was at a small waterfall on the river Shin, chosen, I suspect more for it’s fine visitor center than the beauty of the falls though they are pretty.
Our lunch stop was Ullapool. A nice little fishing village facing the Atlantic.
Mid afternoon we crossed over to Skye. The Isle of Skye, celebrated in story and song
”Speed tiny boat, over the sea,
over the sea to Skye”
The ferry to the island has been replaced by a bridge. It isn’t even that long. So much for myth although where Charles crossed to Skye was further North and a longer ride.
Like most of Northern Scotland Skye is mountainous. It is shaped like multiple peninsulas stuck together. As a result with over 600 miles of coastline no part of the island is more than 5 miles from the sea.
Tom
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