Greshornish

A somewhat quieter day today. In the morning, we headed up to Greshornish headland, which is just north of Edinbane. Wild and quiet, and as Walk Highlands indicated, the walk, although not long, was rather challenging. In fact, although L did the whole headland, Mr A and I baled after we reached the highest point, and headed back expecting to find a decent path down the eastern side of the headland. Hmmm. No, not at all. In fact, it was pretty hard going just to get back to where we left the car. Probably not one to be repeated. We weren’t the only people having trouble. There was another walker out there too, and he was despairing of finding usable paths, so he too headed back to his car.

After that, we popped in to Dunvegan, and scored some take out lunch from the bakery there (which seemed to have massive constant queues outside and apparently is not reopening as a cafe because of staff shortages - not the first time we’ve heard this mentioned). We came back to the hotel via the western route, which was exceedingly busy with camper vans, especially the closer one got to Glenbrittle and the Fairy Pools. We stopped in Talisker, which is closed right now, for L to get some photos, and then headed back around trying to take a look at the overpopular seafood/oyster cafe. No chance of getting in there at all.

Back at the hotel, the weather got better and better as the day went on. L watched the England match, along with a fairly small number of other hotel patrons, and Mr A and I sat in the sun until it was time to head down to dinner at  Eilean Iarmain. That has an amazing situation by the sea, and quite some history it would seem. Because of the change of plans about the match and the inviting sunshine on the hotel terrace, our second walk of the day - out to the Ornsay lighthouse - had been scratched. Ah well, it will still be there when we come back, as we plan to do! One last extra was taken after we finished dinner and popped down onto the pier. It was breezy and quite cold in the wind, but the light was glorious (and a bit of a pest when driving back up to the hotel).

We sat for a final drink in the lounge, as the sun on the mountains opposite gradually faded.