A visit to the UK in 2009

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Kyleaken, on Skye.

On the shoreline below our B&B, looking at the Cuilins (mountains) we were going to hike in.

Broadford's - a typically windswept and sea-facing Scottish graveyard

Many of the headstones are in Gaelic.

The same graveyard on a more typical day.

The Southern edge of Skye

This is where we were going to walk, but we couldn't cross this river due to overnight rain

So we set off up a different hill

Pausing for morning tea (in light rain of course). Sgurr Alaskair, one of the Black Cuilins is in the background.

That coastal path would have been a temptingly easy alternative.

But we had loftier goals - Coire Laggin, a corrie (the starting point of a glacier) in the Black Cuilins.

At least the sun was trying to come out

Thank goodness we were not going to attempt Sgurr Alisdair itself (the Black Cuilin on the right).

These big boulders are "erratics" dumped by the glacier as it spilled out of the corrie.

Another mighty erratic, and a deceptively close view of our goal.

Approaching the final climb. You can imagine the glacier "pouring" over this lip and beginning its descent.

No longer a path but a scramble.

The lochan in the Coire Laggan. This was where the glacier started.

The top of the waterfall.

Not for me.

Moss/lichen/stone/heather - a favourite combination

Some more erratics, moss and Black Cuilins.

And another rushing stream to cross.

In the castle gardens at Armadale.

Our ferry coming to Skye from the mainland. And a storm on the way.