The Island of Skye

I was very excited to take a few days to drive up to the North and West of Scotland to the Island of Skye earlier this week.I had heard great things about this area of Scotland that I had never seen before. Of course what you see (or don't see) is what you get and believe me, timing is everything around here with the weather. Over all, we had decent weather, at least the first day. The drive was beautiful. We retraced quite a lot to the West Highland Way and it was fun to see the places we stayed and some of the trail along the way. The Glencoe valley was very clear and the sun was shinning brightly for much of the day. What a difference a day makes!

Along the way, we passed Elean Donan castle which you can view some photos of. We stayed in a lovely cottage of friends near Kyle of Lochalsh which is about 5 miles from the Skye bridge going over to the Island. We had a bit of a view of the Cullen hills over the bridge of which we were hoping to go see the next day via boat but unfortunately the weather called for rain and wind so the trip was cancelled. We visited an old cemetary and ruins of a chruch and the grave stones dated back to at least the mid 1800 and some you couldn't read any longer.

Before crossing over to Skye, their is a wonderful little town on the water called Plockton where Sara and I walked and took in the sights and soaked up the sun. We had an amazing dinner there one night and had our fill of wonderful local (at least most was) seafood.

We drove over to Portree on Skye and also drove further on before the weather really turned. Back to the cottage to enjoy some reading, movies and just being. It was a great relaxing time in Skye.
You can view my photos of skye at: www.picasaweb.google.com/tonibodeau/IslandOfSkye
There are also a couple of Edinburgh and Glasgow for your enjoyment!