Continuing Isle of Skye

I need to apologize to those of you who follow this blog by reading the emails as they are sent out. Unfortunately, I accidently published two posts on the same day, and I haven’t yet figured out how to take that back to ensure that only one is emailed per day. Of the last two posts, North Coast 500 follows the two on Orkney, and then the one on Western Scotland and Isle of Skye follows.

So now… continuing isle of Skye… on our way to The Fairy Pools…

… we pass through a large area of pines (which we hadn’t seen much of, further north). The Fairy Pools are a series of waterfalls and pools along a river…

… that some people enjoyed jumping into. (that water was really cold)

There were all sorts of falls…

… from small to big…

… and the pools were really clear.

This was a very popular destination, making it quite challenging at times to get relatively clear pictures of the water and rocks alone -

The waterfalls nearest the road were not on the main path and nicely (for me) ignored -

The weather started turning against us, so we didn’t end up doing a whole lot more that day. As we left Skye the next day, we had planned on visiting Eilean Donan Castle, noted to be “the most photographed fortress in Scotland”…

… but it didn’t present much to us in the rain -

We had intended on hiking to a waterfall, and even drove a number of miles down a one lane road…

… but just didn’t feel like slogging through mud and slippery terrain to the Upper Steall falls. On our way back out of the valley, we stopped at an area that had looked too crowded on our way in. It was gorgeous!

These were the Lower Steall falls -

I’ll end with our lunch buddies that day -