Day 7 - I think - was mostly the Isle of Lewis. Take time to look up where this island is!! It's so rugged and strange and beautiful. Much of it is covered by moorland. Harris is so rugged / mountainous / craggy (??) that the population is really small. I'd love to go back when there is more grass. Like the other trip posts, this post will contain photos of this day and a video at the end. This video is much shorter than the last video. And an interesting side note ... we could see the Minch most of the time, however I hardly ever focused the camera towards the water ... I'm not sure why!! It was all so neat.
We started the morning at the hostel mentioned in the last post. I had my porridge as usual (did I mention that at all yet??? I actually made a large batch of porridge at home before the trip ... I freeze dried it, blitzed it to make it smaller, and divided into 14 baggies. Breakfast for 2 weeks, done. It worked out GREAT!!) - I prepared it in the hostel kitchen while chatting with a fellow hostel guest. He was actually on a bicycle ride through the Highlands and that day was his final day before backtracking home.
We packed our things and headed to one of the Callanish Standing Stones sites. These were so neat!!!! I'll include a few photos of the stones, but the videos are pretty comprehensive. I'll also include photos of the information that was shared at the site; some of it overlaps since I was taking the photos from a single graphic (I can't think of what name to give it? A sign board? Information board?).
Beautiful skies on the way to the Callanish Stones ...
After Callanish Stones we head to the Norse Kiln and Mill. This was a very neat piece of history that was reproduced in great accuracy. It was fun to imagine what life must have been like when the people totally depended on these kilns and mills.
We passed the Whale Bone Arch along the way ... I think Megan has a really good picture of this, but also the video shows it a bit better.
And like the history of the Norse Kilns and Mills, the Blackhouses are so fascinating!!! You can see some blackhouse ruins along the way, but the Blackhouse, Arnol, is preserved and you can tour it. We did NOT tour it (maybe next time?) but did go into the visitor center and saw the replica model. A peak into our next day - we did get to see a blackhouse replica ... but more on that next time!
From here we headed to the town of Stornoway ... walked a little and had lunch before waiting in line at the ferry terminal.
Lunch was delicious but I only got a picture of Corban's ... homemade chicken ramen of some sort.
This was our final ferry, and it was by far the must turbulent waters. The man at the hostel learned that I also would really like to visit Shetland but was not able to fit it in to this trip ... he told me those waters are always rough. It was another Cal-Mac Ferry called the MV Loch Seaforth. Here are a few photos of that, but there's more on the video linked below.
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| Just off the ferry ... neat! |
The ferry took us to Ullapool, and from there we drove south down through Inverness and on to our airbnb in Aviemore where we stayed 2 nights. We loaded up at an Aldi before going to the airbnb and had an almost normal family dinner. It was nice!!
Ok, here's the video. Enjoy!!! Next time will be about Loch Ness, Inverness, and other places nearby.
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