Exploring Magical Skye

Trip Start May 02, 2008

Trip End May 04, 2008

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Friday, May 2, 2008

2nd May 2008: Exploring Magical Skye

Along the Trotternish Peninsula

Upon Freddie's expert suggestion, we set off in our Focus on the B884 towards Dunvegan. There is a famous castle here but we didn't go as we prefer exploring the outdoors.

The start of our adventure

We continued on the A850 towards Borve, and to join the main A87 northbound to Uig, driving along the coast of the beautiful Trotternish Peninsula. We passed through so many villages and sights that were so amazingly beautiful that only our pictures can do justice in describing them. So, here they are :

Absolutely beautiful

Peace & serenity

Argi with Conan, our video cam :-)

Postcard shot

Uig ( I think !)

More beautiful scenery

Getting familiar with Gaelic

Quiraing:

As we came down from the other side of the Peninsula towards Staffin, huge dramatic rock formations began to

More fantastic view

appear before our eyes. Cliffs of all shapes and sizes and towering pinnacles dominate the entire landscape. We felt like we were driving into a different world altogether - l

And the mountains appear...

ike entering Narnia through the wardrobe!! This is the grand Quiraing.

Taking a break...

Its rock formations were so majestic and grand and we felt really small again, just like the time when we passed through Kintail at the Highlands.

HmMmm..my Man !!

We took a minor single-track road from Staffin towards the direction of Uig to get a more close up look of the

Single-track road adventure !!

Quiraing to explore it by foot.

Entering Narnia...

The drive up was very steep, narrow and winding but the view was just so spectacular - we were enveloped by mountains all around us.

The winding road we went thru'

We drove past a cemetery and after a few more turns, arrived at a car park at the foot of the Quiraing.

It was very, very windy on the day we were there. We scrapped the idea of taking the demanding 4-mile walk up the Quiraing as the wind made it really chilly and we were not properly dressed to stand the cold. The wind was just so strong that we couldn't possible set up Tanaka and Nero to capture us against this grand formation...so, we only have photos of these :-

Spectacular or what??

Clouds, sea and land

View from the foot of Quiraing

Me taking Argi

Argi taking Me

God's great creation

Sunny, but don't be deceived !!

Argi taking it all in...

Last of Quiraing

The Old Man of Storr:

After spending some time at Majestic Quiraing, we turned back on the same minor road to Staffin and proceeded south towards The Storr. Not being able to walk up the Quiraing, we were determined this time to climb up the Old Man of Storr.

We found the car park mentioned in our guidebook and started the 3 � mile walk. We really enjoyed the track, which started through a forest. This first part of the track was easy,

First part of the track - pretty easy

the smell of the woods and the sound of running waters through a stream added a really serene and tranquil feeling to the whole atmosphere. It reminded me of a walk I took through a forest in Zurich many years ago - it has the same "forest" smell.

My Argi looking so dashing

The track gradually went uphill

If they can do it, so can we !!

and we finally reached an open grassland which brought us closer to the view of the rocky pinnacles above. We walked past a gate and began a very steep climb all the way up to the Old Man.

The steep climb up

Of course Argi would have loved to run all the way up but he was kind and gentleman enough to take the slower route by walking up with me. I think I did quite well - I only stopped twice to rest :-)) !!