An Island By Any Other Name Would Still Be As Boggy!

I've just come back from Eilean a' Cheo! That's what it's called now you know. Well, not really. The Highland council decided that Skye should in future be known by it's Gaelic name, "Eilean a' Cheo" (Misty Island), but fortunately it was put to a vote by the residents of Skye and it was
overwhelmingly rejected. Suggestions that this is because most people that live in Skye are originally from Middlesborough and can't pronounce the Gaelic alternative are probably not completely without foundation! Anyway, I would suggest that Eilean a' Bogs and Gallus Sheep is probably a more fitting moniker.

So Colin, Al, and I went back to whatever it's called and it was just as great as it always is.  We took a walk on the Saturday to see the Maidens of McLeod, enormous rock pillars sticking out of the water in an Old Man of Hoy type fashion.  Apparently the big one is the mother and the other two are daughters.  whatever - they were spectacular and the weather was fantastic.  We could have sat there all day taking it in but we had to head back before we got stranded in the dark.  It was about a 3 hour forced march on the way home and a forced march it was.  We stopped only to marvel at the natural arches in the cliff face.  Our instructions said that they were only visible from the top of a particular hill.  this was true but regrettably our instructions failed to mention WHICH HILL!!!!  It was third time lucky, it was tiring, and it was worth it.

On Sunday we took a short stroll to the coral beaches.  The pictures speak for themselves.  A beach like that on the mainland would be thick with people every weekend.  Thank God then that it's not.  It was beautiful.  All the pictures are here.