Dornie
In September we spent a week in South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides, flanked by a few days elsewhere on either side. We started in Dornie with three nights in the Eilean Donan Apartments, where we had also stayed in 2019. We were allocated exactly the same apartment! On our evening walk after arrival we discovered that Dornie was just as pretty as we remembered.
On our first day we did a walk which we hadn’t done last time, from Balmacara to Kyle of Lochalsh, a pleasant, undulating mixture of woodland and moorland with views over Loch Alsh and ahead to Skye.
In Kyle we got a closer view of the Skye Bridge, spotted some street art of a highland cow and, most importantly, had lunch before retracing our steps back to Balmacara.
On our second day we revisited places we had been to in 2019 and which I have already written about, so I shall just briefly mention them here with links to the previous posts should anyone be interested. First, Attadale Gardens where we spotted some real heilan’ coos.
Then the circular Lochalsh Woodland Walk.
John finished his day with a cycle during which he got beautiful views above Loch Duich.
The following morning, as we left Dornie, there was still a bit of mist hanging over the hills.
We drove to Kyle for breakfast in the same café where we had eaten lunch two days before (Hector’s Bothy, very good) before crossing the bridge to Skye and heading to Uig for the Uist ferry. By the time we got there, the mist had developed somewhat and there was much frantic checking of the CalMac app to see if our ferry was still on.
Fortunately, although some other routes had been cancelled, our ferry turned up on time for the two hour crossing to Lochmaddy in North Uist from where we headed south to our home for the next week. But that’s a tale for another day!
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Hi Anabel – it looks like you had lovely weather … and what great pics you’ve given us to show off the place. Then John has ‘the audacity’ to get on his bike after your walk/hike around … good for him!! I’m glad the ferry worked out – cheers Hilary
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We caught the end of a mini-September heatwave here. It didn’t last for the rest of the holiday!
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Anabel, Such beautiful scenery and landscape. I crossed the bridge to Skye recently. I loved the real Heilan coos that I saw when I was in Scotland. The Heilan coo mural is beautiful too.
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We have a herd of heilan’ coos in Glasgow – they live in a local park. Gorgeous creatures, and passive compared to other cattle.
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How beautiful! You certainly had good weather while you were there.
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We did for this part, colder when we moved on. But it’s the highlands and island so what can we expect!
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