Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Sep 21, 2006

Skye (2)

Filed in Britain 2006

From top to bottom:

Duntulm Castle. It perches atop a precipitous cliff. I’ve been there a couple of times before, once in strong winds where only me and my (ex) husband were the visitors. Today there were hordes, and you can’t get into the site any more. It will eventually fall into the sea.

The Flora MacDonald monument. She is actually buried on South Uist, I think, but the Skye people wanted a monument, rightfully so. This is in a lovely old graveyard with some very interesting old graves. (Well, one would typically expect old graves in old graveyards, but humour me.)

We went flying (well, sort of) past a sign for a souterrain, and I requested a u-turn! It turned out to be a 55′ (17m) tunnel leading to an underground storage under an old round house–2000 years old. I went partway in, using the borrowed torch left for visitors, which I thought was marvellous, but it was very, very tight and muddy and I was a bit creeped out on my own!

Sunset, looking back towards the island.

It was glorious.