Saturday 14th June

After a good  nights sleep we got up and we were eating breakfast by 8am.  The journey to Uig on Skye wasn't as long as yesterday.  We stopped off at various viewpoints, two of which we had been to before next to Loch Garry.  One of them seemed to have become a place for people to create shrines of towers of pebbles, I don't know if all of them were dedicated to specific people, but some had names on.

After travelling a little further, we made a detour to Glenelg to have a look at two Brochs, Dun Telve and Dun Trodden.  The route we took was windy and bumpy, the majority of it single lane with passing places.  Not only was it quite fun, but the scenery was rather impressive as we seemed to go up quite high onto a plateau and back down again into the valley.  We found ourselves wondering how cut off this place gets during the winter...!  We decided to stop off at the viewpoints on the way back.  The Brochs were quite impressive - we had seem some before, but none had been quite as high as this with so much of the stonework surviving.  Both of them gave us a much better idea of how tall they would have been.

On the way back we stopped off at the viewpoints we had seen earlier - the highest one unfortunately had some cloud quickly covering up the view so we had to take some hasty photos before continuing down for a slightly better view.  We finally made it back to the main road and continued on to Eilean Doonan Castle which we had visited last time we were here, and went into the cafe for some lunch.  We thought it might be a good idea to have a hot meal here as opposed to a light bite, so we both had a handmade burger each which was very nice indeed!


Bellies full, we pressed on and we quickly arrived at the bridge over to the Isle of Skye where we continued on to Uig.  We had plenty of time to reach the Pier so we didn't need to rush.  We stopped off at various viewpoints along the way, especially around the Cullins which were huge and very impressive.  We arrived at Uig Pier at 4:30pm and awaited our ferry.  We heard that there was a delay yesterday due to the weather, but today the water looked quite calm.

It arrived at 6pm and we were actually the first on board!  We parked on th mezzanine floor which meant that we would be amongst the last off.  After parking, we made our way onto the ferry and explored.  Shortly after departing we investigate the food on offer, although I wasn't hungry and was still full from the burger earlier.  However, Mathew had a small curry and I had a hot chocolate.  For the rest of the journey we were outside on deck, taking photos of the water - this was the calmest crossing I think I have ever been on - the water was so still, almost like glass and the boat glided effortlessly - the water was so clear, we even saw jellyfish in there!!  1 hour 40 minutes later we were on Lewis and in Tarbert, our B&B was not far away.  We were welcomed in and I finally started feeling hungry so I had the last piece of cold pizza which I had brought with me.