Wed., Aug. 3, 2011
Day 3 Highland Tour
We went to the grocery store to pick up lunch supplies and then headed out to take a boat trip. It is absolutely spectacular weather and scenery. We saw otters and birds as we traveled over to a mountainous island. Once landing we scurried over slate slab rocks and stones to find a picnic spot. This reminded Mark and me of YMCA of the Rockies camp in Estes Park where we met 38 years ago. We use to picnic on the side of the mountain at the camp and had similar views of the surrounding mountains. We hiked around until time to take the boat back to Isle of Skye. On the boat they served tea and biscuits. I am getting quite use to tea with milk and white coffee (coffee with milk- no cream) and shortbread cookies (biscuits). I saw a family with 4 small children with curly, curly hair. The 3 boys reminded me of mine when they were little. The captain of the boat let them sit in the seat and ‘steer’. It just doesn’t get any better than that for a kid.
Part of group voted to stop in Portree to watch the Isle of Skye Highland games. What a treat- we saw Scottish dancers of various ages competing, bagpipe band, high jumping without a landing cushion, stone throwing, caber tossing, and the tug-of-war. It was all great fun. The rest of the group stayed on the tour bus and went up the coast a ways to see “Old man of stone”- I guess the “Old woman of stone” had fallen down- no kidding.
Back to Kyleakin and dinner at Taste of India restaurant. I generally do not like Indian food, but one of the young gals, of Indian ancestry, convinced me she would find something on the menu I would like and she was right! Are we ever tired tonight- it has been a long and exhausting day- one I’m so glad to have shared with Mark and our new international friends.
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