Skye day 1

 The drive to Skye is a lovely one as you can imagine, it was a good 3hr drive from where we were so the bridge was a welcome site, the bridge was from mainland Scotland was built in 1995, before that the ferries were the only way to get there. Ferries go from different places from the mainland over to Skye and I’m sure all with fantastic views, we haven’t done the ferry over, maybe next time we go we will. The bridge is only 500 metres and goes from Kyle of Lochalsh to Kyleakin, it is a lovely way to enter Skye.

Our first stop was Otter Haven it has a walk and a bird hide where apparently you can see different kinds of wildlife and of course otters. We had hummed and haa’d about going as we had read that the road to Otter Haven was very narrow and not suited for motorhomes, but we had had a look on Google Earth and it didn’t look too bad and had passing places, also Evie is not a massive motorhome so we decided to go.

It was a narrow road and a good few miles to our destination, but it was ok and we hardly met anything on the way, the car park was easy to find and there was plenty of parking. The walk down to the hide wasn’t very long and was though some woodland with views in-between the trees of Loch Alsh, the hide was quite large with a wooden model of an otter and information about what you can expect to see from the hide, we stayed for about an hour but unfortunately we didn’t see anything, only the odd heron, sometimes with the hides you have to go early in the morning or just before dusk. 

As we walked back up to Evie we met a couple who asked us if we had seen anything, they were from Newcastle and it’s the 5th or 6th time they had been, as we carried on talking the man asked Steve if we had ever been to the Ardnamuchan Peninsula as there was a great hide there, of course we had to say we had got married there and been to the hide a good few times, they also asked us if we knew the Resipole campsite which is where we stayed for a night last year, I mentioned about the gorgeous house that was next to the campsite called Rockpool House which is where we had our honeymoon, we couldn’t believe it when they said they were staying there the next week and had been a few times over the last few years, they were staying in the apartment for the first time instead of the house which does B&B, it is such a small world sometimes, we said our goodbyes and set off back to Evie.

It was getting on for dinner time by now, so we thought we would have a look for somewhere to park up and make some lunch. There were a few places to park, but some of them were quite open and if the wind does pick up it can be a bit scary, we were getting nearer to the end of the road and found this little park up in the trees, we made lunch and decided to stay there for the rest of the day and stay the night, I think after the long drive we were ready to chill for a while.

The road wasn’t busy at all, it seemed to be busy in fits and starts, I think it must have been because there was also a small ferry that went from Kylerhea back across the loch back to Glenelg which is back on the mainland, when I say busy its literally 2 to 4 cars every now and then, as the night drew in we hardly saw anything. Steve decided to put the wildlife camera out for the night to see if we could capture anything as we were in a wooded area. We settled down and had a chill, I read the book I had downloaded on my kindle and Steve watched some tutorials, we watched a nice light hearted film later which was The Queens Corgis, it’s a great film. About ten we took that weary ladder up to bed.