Scots, along with the rest of the world, seem puzzled with our obsession with Shetland. But all of them seem to have been to the Isle of Skye. It's certainly nice - but it also feels like a tourist destination. A nice one, but even now, in winter, the place is crawling with tourists.
The main town of Portree's main harbor is down and to the left of the pink building. It's very cute. We are staying on the other side of the "Lump" - the hill/peninsula behind those buildings.
See the blue sailboat in the foreground? Follow it's mast up - it's pointing to our cottage. It's right ON the water on the other bay, which is called the "Lovely Muck". At high tide, it's a gorgeous bay. At low tide, it's full of rooks, jackdaws, gulls, and other birds. We love it.
I climbed up the Lump this morning to watch the sunrise from Apothecary’s tower at the top of the lump.
Here's the view I got.
Along with this one.
And here's a view of the trail that goes around the lump.
But we have explored outside Portree. We took some very narrow and pothole filled roads to get to the upscale Talisker distillery. They had amazing non-gendered bathrooms. Apparently some pretty good whisky too.
Always sheep - but this time, very clean, very pretty sheep - with horns!
Then we went to the Fairy Pools. The winding thing you see is the path along the creek, with one waterfall and pool after another.
Here's one of the waterfalls.
This waterfall falls right off the cliff into the ocean. Amazing.
And what is the highlands without a highland cow?
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