From Sligachan, we had a straight run to the far north west for a nose about Dunvegan Castle

Seat of the MacLeod clan for over 800 years, a family ticket cost us £37 for the house and gardens. Parking was unexpectedly good and spacious with johns and a gift shop on hand. MH area is in the overspill parking and was great.

The castle was nice enough, very busy, and not very well signposted for a route around to see the best of it. Some fine portraits, though, and an otter sporran, which featured in several, and was actually on display.. I had serious library envy, mainly for the peacock feather upholstered armchair and footstool, but the highlight was the gardens.

There was the option of a seal spotting boat trip, for an extra cost. We walked down to the jetty, but it was quite a windy day, and the boat was basically a rowing boat, so we decided against it.

The walled garden, the water garden and the woodland were all great and we had a very pleasant few hours mucking about in the outdoors.

Having exhausted the possibilities for mirth, and with the juniors satisfied after purchasing mood rings of all things in the gift emporium, we decided to take the west coast back to camp.

Not 500 yards down the road, we overshot this place, and luckily spotted parking almost immediately on the right.

This was, without a doubt, one of the best spots on Skye. The girl child has a nerdish interest in the Guinness Book of World Records, and is building quite a collection of the books, so she was genuinely starry eyed to be in the presence of artefacts from the life of one of the tallest true giants to ever live.

The museum was literally a small shed, the entrance fee was only a few quid, and it wasn’t even manned when we turned up.

The little old mester was very jolly when he arrived and chatted away to us before departing to peel his spuds for tea. He very generously gave the kids a pencil each, which was pretty much half the cost of the entry fee back, and he left us to it.

You could sit on the giant’s bed and chair, see a replica of his coffin, pose with a life size mannequin and find out all about his fame and fortune. It was genuinely interesting and would have been very easy to miss.

Back at Sligachan we took a wander across to examine the old bridge:

And treated ourselves to tea across in Seumas’ Bar, next door to and part of the Sligachan Hotel

The bar was warm and friendly, with several hundred whiskies on display, local beer (brewed next door) at 6 quid a pint 😵‍💫, and tasty food:

A great day, next stop Staffin.

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