Touring the Isle of Skye, Scotland -- Friday June 28, 2013

Ed's walk yesterday was a good one.  It should have been 6 miles but was longer because the trail was not well marked, so he's pretty tired.

The weather forecast continues to not look good for the next few days.  We decide if we're going to see anything around, we had better do it anyway--the Scots are all complaining that they haven't seen their spring yet.

Coastline of Isle of Skye

We decide to head to the Isle of Skye.  The Isle of Skye is the largest and most northerly large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous centre dominated by the Cuillins, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.  It's about a 3 hour ride to get there each way and then a few hours of tooling around the islands so it will be a long day of driving.

Hairy cow

Here's one of the cows we saw on the roadway: 






We stopped in one of the little tourist towns, Portree, for lunch.  Portree is the largest town on Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is the location for the only secondary school on the Island, Portree High school.  It's name comes from the Gaelic Port-an-Righ, which translates as "King's Port" and dates to a visit by King James V, plus a fleet of warships, in 1540, to persuade the island clans to support him. It had earlier been known as Kiltraglen.

We found lunch at a bustling Café.   They had GREAT onion rings.