Outside our front window at last night's caravan park.
Sigh.............today it rained - a lot. Reminds me of the 1996 flood in Oregon or perhaps the time when we were in Turin, Italy and we were walking to our hostel. It rained most of the time on the three days in Skye.
Our first attempt at adventure was to go to Elgol, take a boat across a bay to an interesting hiking place. The boat drops you off at a loch (lake) which can only be reached by boat. The mountains are really steep and the place is kinda mysterious.
Th drive there took forever of the single track road through tpical countryside.
Here's the dock/pier at the little port.
Here's the place to get tickets........hmmmm...no one is in the window; only a sign that reads, basically, there may be no boat trips for several days due to the weather. Yep. Knew it! We had already decided we didn't want to go and were happy the notice made the final decision for us. Let's see; boat trip on stormy sea, wind howling so strongly that it is difficult to open/close the door; unable to wear rain capes in such blustery weather.
We left. It was rainng so much that water covered many parts of the road. The sheep were not happy. They were huddling anyplace where they could find a bit of shelter. It looks like these were trying to get into a barn (don't think Scottish sheep get a barn - unless maybe they are on death's door - ). I even saw a sheep shaking itself like a dog.
We determined our next adventure to be the little town of Kylerhea where we got a ferry from the island of Sky to the mainland.
This is the body of water we are going to cross.
This is very unusual ferry - the only kind that remains in the world. It is a hand operated ferry that has a turntable that is rotated at each side of the body of water. This rotation allows the cars to get on and off from the side of the boat. See pictures below or google ww.skyeferry.co.uk
On the other side of the loch was a villge that we decided to drive through with a bustling mainstreet
We found a cafe and decided it was lunch time
The lunch menu had only sweet potato and cocunut milk soup with homemade bread
We kept heading south on our way to Oban
Stopped at a snack shack (food cart) parked along a loch thinking we'd get a geniune Scottich snack. I ordered a potato scone - imagine creamy chopped potatoes with a yummy sauce and grilled onions. Dad got a sausage sandwich - imagine two grilled sausage links on italian bread with a curry sauce. Wrong?
We got to a nice caravan park north of Oban. It is on a bay that directly connects to the Atantic.
I just took another one. Yep, it's raining
Two more full days until we return the car and enter the big city of Edinburgh.
but nice rainbows
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