Skye

I have mentioned walking before. It seems to be a popular passtime and i can imaging few prettier places to do it.

Much of the island is pretty flat and there are many cleared pastures to make the walking easy. There are also many challenging hikes and climbs for the more adventuresome.

We stayed 2 nights on the island in the hotel you can just see in the thumbnail to the right.

During our stay in Scotland we saw many post cards of Highland cattle which have been bred here for centuries. As we were wandering around the island, we encountered our own post card perfect opportunity to see these cattle up close ...

... and closer. I grew up in Montana and can never really remember thinking a cow was pretty. But these guys were pretty and photogenic to boot. You wouldn't notice it if I hadn't told you, but I had to use Photoshop to remove this guy's ear tag. The darnn tag sort of spoiled the effect for me.

Here is a little closer view of our hotel which was owned by the MacDonalds. Turns out she is quite a well known author of cookbooks. Our room rate included a five-course dinner from her kitchen. We ate splendidly!

I especially like this photo. the hikers in the photo give a sense of scale to the hill side. We spent some time walking along the beach and enjoying the birds that lived there.

At the northern end of the island at a place called Kilt Rock, there is a stream that flows to the edge of the cliff and falls several hundred feet to the sea below. Very cool!

Skye, and Scotland in general, has hundreds of little settlements which I find charming. So different from the cities we have become used to.

I mentioned we left the island by ferry. This was taken in the morning of our last day in Scotland at the ferry terminal.

Come on! Let's go ... exploring!