PART THIRTEEN - Sligachan, the waterfalls and skinny dipping!

 


PART THIRTEEN - 

Sligachan, the waterfalls and skinny dipping!


We decided to go back to Sligachan to walk up to the waterfalls.

We parked up and set off, with NO other people around.


The substantial bridge over the Allt Dearg Mor burn.

Although impressive - the views weren't half as good today as when we first arrived on Skye - then, they were incredible (as you will have seen at the beginning of the blog).

.....that's one small step for man......

Sue just couldn't WAIT to get immersed in this landscape.




Apart from the stunning surrounding scenery, there are lots of beautiful waterfalls and waterslides here and the walk up.


We passed this sad memorial - no idea what happened, or who they were, but they were tragically young. :-(

We looked down at this wonderful swimming hole - BUT it was really inaccessible. However.......


Now, as Goldilocks once said, 
this place was JUUUUUST right!

"There's no-one coming - let's get in!"

And - before you could say 'FLASHER!', she was in!

I'm sure she was a mermaid in a previous life :-)

Oh, how Sue LOVES water - whatever the temperature!

The waterfall was SO cold, it gave her brain freeze!

After the swim, we headed back down to visit the micro brewery.
We were quite excited, as we both love craft beer.


The interior is quite impressive, with lots of beer bling on show.

It was and is, as expected, quite expensive. However, we were REALLY let down when the £17 burger came. The patty itself was lovely and well cooked, but the roll it was on was AWFUL!! One of those cheap, powdery things with no flavour, and it broke up when you tried to eat it.
You know that saying; 'Spoil the boat for a ha'porth of tar'?
This is a prime example.

We'd seen some sort of monument across the road, so before setting off back, we went across to have  a look.
It's a very lovely sculpture to two great friends, John Mackenzie of Sconser, and professor Norman Collie.
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