Isle of Skye: an eerie landscape, a green Mars. I remember reading about the island as a girl and thinking I wanted to go there someday. I didn't have a clear idea of what to expect, just that it is described as untouched and mysterious, a beautiful place where you might easily find faeries or unicorns in a misty glen.
We took the rustic single-track road from Broadford down to Elgol and back. It wound beside the razor-tooth Cuillin Hills and down to the southwestern coast.
The steep, rugged coastline of tiny Elgol.
Daniel's Land Rover. They were everywhere in the Highlands.
We found a hairy cow! And it walked straight up to the van to pose for us.
Ruins of Cill Chriosd (Christ’s Church), a place of worship since the 600s and abandoned in 1840.
Lunch break: fish and chips in Uig harbor.
Old Man of Storr. Parts of the movie Prometheus were filmed here.
Kilt Rock waterfall. There are lots of sheep in Scotland! And wild foxglove were blooming all over the Highlands.
At the northernmost tip of the Trotternish Peninsula, basically the top of the Isle of Skye.
Ruins of Duntulm Castle, built on a sea cliff in the 14th or 15th century and abandoned in 1732 because it was haunted. I think it was the wind that drove them out, not ghosts. Jutting over the sea, it’s one of the windiest places we’ve ever visited.
See what I mean about an almost alien feel? Mesmerizing.
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