After sleeping in Rubha Hunish, it was an early day out. We headed westward over to Uig for breakfast and I had a savoury haggis and cheese panini with a glass of orange juice.
After fueling up, we headed down to the Fairy Pools, a very beautiful part of Skye. Unfortunately the weather was not on our side and, while even though in poor weather it was a great experience, my photos of the area aren’t worth getting excited about. I did take a timelapse here which will be shown in the future.
From there, we made our way back up to Uig to take the ferry over to the Isle of Lewis. We found ourselves making a tough decision, when we were told that return tickets had been sold out for the following day and that we would be gambling on whether or not we could return the next day or the one after. Realizing that it would be our one and only chance to see Lewis, we decided to just go with it and took the ferry.
At the north part of Lewis, is the Calanais/Callanish Standing Stones, where we made our camp for the night on a sheltered hill. In the morning, we explored the north a bit before heading back and queueing in the wait list for the ferry.
While luck wasn’t on our side this far with weather, it was on our side with the queue, and we were able to get onto the ferry. The weather even cleared up while we were on the ferry, and by the time we were back in Skye, the sky was perfect.
We headed east to Staffin to hunt for fossilized dinosaur prints, before setting up camp in a sheep shearing pen at the base of the Quiraing. Oddly enough, though we were in an area designed to hold sheep, it was probably the furthest we’d camped from sheep while on Skye. It was however, my first encounter with Nettles. These plants are bastards, and everyone in Europe seems to be aware of them from an early age.
On the final part of our trip in Skye, we began with a hike of the Quiraing, and then continued on to explore Dunvegan, Fairy Glen, and Eilean Donan (neither of which I have video of) before returning to Glasgow.
All in all, Skye is a visually stunning place. For photos of it, head on over to my flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/allegrodigital/sets/72157645154973935/