Isle Of Skye - Day 3

Today we woke up on the Isle of Skye after a night of watching a beautiful sunset over the island and watching Italy get ruined in the euro cup. Also spoke to some of our fellow travellers and got some advice about where to go in Italy and all their adventures. It's really neat talking to all the different people on our bus, where they've been what they've been doing or where they are going to go. The one fellow on our tour is part time in the Australian Air Force, Infantry trained and has done a tour in Iraq so it's been interesting talking to him and others on our tour. 

It's hard to keep track of everything we do in a day because you just see so many castles and hills and monuments but I will try and remember accurately all the names and places we went to. First off we headed to a place with glorious view of the surrounding hills and our guide told us a story about faeries and after the story we all had to dip our faces in the river so that the faeries could make us even more good looking then we already were, so that really woke us up! 

After that we headed north to the Old Man of Storr, which was just a large hill with some interesting rocks at the top that gave us an amazing view of the mainland and surrounding hill. You could literally just sit there all day and appreciate the view! It was quite the climb and our guide says he has only gone to the top twice with other groups. It was cool seeing all the sheep in the hills around us and they just climb around no problem. 

Then we headed off, exhausted to some cliffs and other look outs, all gorgeous and giving us just great views. We stopped at an old 2000 year old ruin that some old vikings had built and that archaeologists can only guess at what it use to look like. It's neat just walking through their rock ruins imagining what it was like over 2000 years ago.

After we finished there we headed off to Fort Augustus near Loch Ness, where we are staying to the next two nights as we travel the surrounding area. These hostels have been great because they actually have kitchens with pots/pans etc. where we can cook our own meals at night, which cuts down on a lot of cost as don't have to go out every night. Tonight we bought stuffed crust pizza from the grocery store! So cool! You can buy stuffed crust pizza here it's awesome. They also have lots of quick meals that aren't make of crap and that don't have lots of preservatives in them so those have been great too. 

Tomorrow we will be off touring around loch ness and inverness which will be lots of fun. Super exhausted from that big hike up the Old Man of Storr though. The Isle of Skye kind of reminded me and Sophie of the West coast meets the East coast of Canada because of the fishing villages and all the mountains nearby. Anyways lots of fun ahead, Cheers!