Thursday 15 July 2010
We woke to pouring rain & the bad news that we couldn't stay another night at the same b&b. However, the manager gave us a couple of places to try & we were able to get a room in Bernisdale, not very far from Portree. The weather hadn't improved by mid morning so we decided to drive slowly around the Trotternish penisula as that seemed to be the most scenic. The first main sight is the “Old man of Storr” - a large stone stack on top of a cliff visible from Portree in good conditions. Well, we didn't have a chance of seeing it as the cloud was down very low – we couldn't see the tops of hills yet alone taller mountains.
We stopped at a scenic look-out that looked over an old rock processing plant – very dramatic cliffs & great views out to sea, but the rain just got heavier & heaver. We stopped again at Kilt Falls – but the rain was so hard by this point that Bill didn't even take his camera out of the car & all the shots I took were ruined by big rain drops on my lens. We were wet & cold & demoralised. We drove to a hotel & ordered tea & coffee and then lunch as we read the newspaper and waited for the rain to ease up. We were there several hours, but our patience was rewarded & when we left the rain had virtually stopped, although it was still very grey.
We stopped at a few other places around the top & then at Uig to inquire about ferries to the Outer Hebrides. We found that all the ferries were booked for days as there was a big music festival going on! We decided that it wouldn't be a good time to visit anyway as accommodation would be tight as well. So we left the ferry office realising we had to change the plans we'd been making.
Our b&b was great & we decided to stay on an extra night & try to book a boat trip in the morning to see a white-tailed sea eagle. Then we'd decide about what we would do next.
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