Music: Come Home To Me, Tim Janis
A little video I made on my ipad of a trip to beautiful Skye earlier this year..
Before reaching Skye, I stopped off at Eilean Donan Castle, it appears a lot in pictures of Scotland, because it is so picturesque, and has appeared in many films and television programmes too.

Eilean Donan (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Donnain) is a small tidal island where three lochs meet, Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh, in the western Highlands of Scotland. The castle was restored in the early 20th Century, and a footbridge now connects the island to the mainland.

Then onto Portree the largest town on Skye... and the pictures show the colourful harbour..

The Skye Museum of Island Life at Kilmuir, was opened in 1965. The aim was to preserve a township of thatched cottages, each one depicting, as closely as possible, the conditions prevailing on the island at the close of the nineteenth century...The Weavers cottage is one of many preserved cottages..

Then onto Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church or "Kilchrist") and is a ruined former parish church of Strathaird. It was constructed around the 16th century, replacing an earlier Medieval church on the same location, and was used until 1840 when the Parish church was relocated to Broadford.

I loved the old celtic cross stones, and the view of the mountains behind.. I think I scared the odd sheep as I wandered around..

The next place I photographed was Bla Bheinn..The name "Blà Bheinn" is thought to mean "blue mountain", from a combination of Norse and Gaelic.

Moving onto the Storr...(Scottish Gaelic: An Stòr) and is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula ..The area in front of the cliffs of the Storr is known as the Sanctuary. It has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips.

And finally to beautiful Elgol.. (Scottish Gaelic: Ealaghol) and is a village on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula..it is a crofting and fishing village, and I enjoyed dipping my toes into the water on a beautiful warm sunshiney day..

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