Although it was dry it remained quite windy (though not as bad as the last couple of days). Quiraing wasn't something we had planned to do but it came recommended so we decided to head back to the Trotternish area and take in the spectacular views which were promised. The rock formations here were created by a huge landslip millions of years ago where rock seperated from rock, slid down the landscape while remaining mostly upright. It has left unusally shaped rock formations, some which appear as sunken ships!
This was another busy destination despite us getting there reasonably early. From the start it was a steep grassy path; most people took the other path so we found ourselves the only ones going up. Ivor pulled Blair up the whole way (340m)! It was cold and windy on top and remained pretty exposed until we started the descent.
The views were good from the top - looking down the cliff edges to the tiny ant sized people walking the paths below and over to the sea and Staffin Bay. The landscape had a prehistoric feel to it and you could imagine the dinosaurs that would have roamed these lands millions of years ago.
The descent was stony and slippy in parts. Blair slipped on his backside twice (probably not helped with Ivor pulling the whole time) but luckily my dignity remained intact despite a few near misses.
Although reasonably short in distance (4.5 miles) it was a tiring walk and we were glad to eventually reach the car.
We drove the few miles on to Staffin and to Columbus 1400 (a social enterprise cafe whose proceeds go to helping disengaged young people). We had a nice lunch and treated ourselves to a cream tea - lovely!
On from there we visited Uig and went to the pottery and the brewery where we bought a few Skye beers. It was quite a full day and we arrived back home around 4pm to freshen up ahead of going out for dinner to the Loch Bay restaurant.
