Scotland Part 2 – Isle of Skye

28^th July – Isle of Skye

Today it was time to head towards the Isle of Skye which is one of the reasons for choosing Lochcarron as base for staying in Scotland. First it was time to head to Kyle of Lochalsh where you can take the bridge over to the Skye.

First, I made my way towards Broadford and then turned off down towards Armadale and finally too quiet a narrow country road over towards Dunscaith Castle, which was a bit of a challenging road, but I am glad that I also downloaded my maps to my phone, so that when I loose internet signal on my phone, I can still navigate, otherwise I would have been having a nightmare.

I was tempted to go into the ruins of Dunscaith Castle, but there was a slight problem with the fact that the bridge was missing a few stones from it, so it would have not been safe to go across to it unfortunately, but here are a few photos I was able to get of it.

After this, it was time to head back up to Broadford and towards the Fairy Pools, where I stopped off at Sligachan for a bit of a break.

It was then time to go to the Fairy Pools, but when I got there, I was in for a bit of a shock with the price of parking being £8. That is for all day parking, which is fine if you want to go off an explore quite a bit, but all I wanted to do was spend about 30 mins to 1 hour there, so I quickly left and instead followed the road down to its end in Glenbrittle and that turned out to be the right decision with black sand beaches due to the basalt from volcanic actifity, back when the island was formed, it is also why quite a few of the mountains have black rock.

As time was getting on and the day after is quite a long day, it was time to start heading back but stop at Sligachan again as when I stopped there beforehand, I saw a place there called Seumas’ Bar which looked quite good and the food sounded quite nice as well.

For dinner, I had Haloumi Fries with a sweet chilli jam for starters and Haggis, neeps and Tatties with a whiskey sauce for my mains, which was a first. I would definitely stop here again in the future.

Join me next time, as I head as far up north as I can go (AKA to Johns O’ Groats)!!!