Scotland-Isle of Skye Day 3

Since this was our final day on Skye we pushed hard. By the end of it we were exhausted! We hiked over 18miles, a good portion of that up. It was our favorite day and the views were so rewarding. The first walk of the day was in Waternish. We hiked up to an old coastguard tower and just sat and watched a HUGE red ship come in and pass by some t-tiny sailboats. We could have spent all day sitting there. It was the most beautiful weather day we had while on Skye. So beautiful and peaceful and we only saw 4 other people during this hike. Karen had tipped us off to it, that it was spectacular but not a lot of people knew about it. So glad we listened to her.

 Patrick wanted to hike down there. I said I'm good. You can see a few more daring people than myself in the pictures.

 More Highland Cows

On to the Quirang. This was so fun. Really hard but incredible. The Quirang is actually a landslip or landslide. Each year they have to repair the road way down below because it's still moving. We hiked through the pass then up to the top of the mountain and back down. Simply incredible. While we were on the top the fog rolled in pretty quick and we got a little nervous about finding our way back down safely. But we made it.

 The Storr and The Old Man of Storr

 The Old Man

I can't see any construction type of equipment without thinking of some sweet boys.

 This guy started about 5 minutes after us, and caught up with us about 20 minutes in. Our legs were shot after all the other hiking we had done. We were stopping to rest our burning quads as he passed by and said in his thick Scottish accent, "30 minutes to the pinnacle!" We tried to keep up, but were not match for his awesomeness that day. It's about 3 miles straight up. We thought this walk would be easy since we had done much more difficult ones that day. We didn't realize, till we arrived, that in order to reach the pinnacle you had to go up, straight up. We stopped along the way and took several pictures and met him at the top. It took us about 40 minutes. He and Patrick had a good chat. He told Patrick he does this walk 3 times a week, that "It's good for me heart and me lungs." He convinced us that we weren't done until we were close enough to touch the "Old Man" so we gathered up what energy we had left and ascended to the top. It was SOOO windy when we got there. The wind was really gusting through there. I was a little nervous for my life. I decided to come back down from that portion on my booty. My legs were shaky from exhaustion and the wind was hitting so hard I didn't want to take any chances. SOOO glad we did it though.

We loaded up in the car and headed straight to Edinbane Inn for some well deserved food.