Out and Around

Bill, Mary and I are making progress at traveling all the main roads on Skye. In fact, on our quest today we crossed the new Skye bridge and traveled on the Scottish mainland before returning home by a way different route. The Cuillins peeked out at us, at least some of them did:

Then over the bridge to the harbor to actually see the bridge with a Cullin or two peering back at us as well.

Our clever hostess had directed us to visit Plockton, a photogenic town on the coast. It is actually in wooded hills, quite different from recent scenery and very picturesque:

Advancing on our clockwise route, lunch at Eilean Donan Castle. Weather by now wasn't great for a photo but here it is anyway. 

Eilean Donan is iconic with it's three-arched bridge, it is often seen on calendars and posters--and my brand-new teensy print of an old watercolor.

Overland now, steeply up and down single track roads to catch a small turntable ferry--after we drove on, they actually manually pushed a turntable so neither the ferry nor the two cars had to turn around. It was so small there wasn't room for a ramp on both sides! 

Back on Skye, steeply up and down more country: beautiful high glens with white houses residing below. It felt like we were on top of the world, we were so high above them. No pix because it was raining in earnest now.

Returned to Portree to rest before dinner and prepare for our drive tomorrow: off Skye to the mainland then down the coast to cross over to Mull, then drive almost to Iona. I'm excited all over again! 

Only a few more days until it's over and I'll be home wondering if it really happened...