Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Isle of Skye Tour Kilt Rock

After hunting for our dinosaur footprint, our tour continued on around the coast. We drove further high up along the coast and came to our next stop, the Kilt Rock. This was just a 15minute stop, as there was really only the awesome waterfall free falling it's way into the ocean to see.

This is the site as we made our way from our bus to the viewing platform.

Above the view of Scotland that is embedded in my head! Hahahaha. But actually in my head was a similar view of Ireland which I mistook for Scotland. But still, it was the iconic view that I wanted to see, where the earth suddenly end as it deep falls straight vertically into the sea. It was like someone has taken a tool and chopped it for the land to end so abruptly. 

It was a difficult angle to actually get a shot of the cliff beyond along with the waterfall, so I am posting a few similar photos here. I imagined that people could just run and just jump from the cliff when they wanted to end their life here. I wonder if people did just that long time back?

Isn't it just a gorgeous view? Isle of Skye is like paradise on earth with such magnificent landscape!

My less impressive souvenir shot. I sometimes wish my husband was a better photographer. Then I might have lovelier photos to remember my trip by.

Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Isle of Skye Tour An Corran Beach Dinosaur Footprint

Road trip! Bonus edition! This wasn't on my radar when Jada told us we were going to see dinosaur footprints!!!! Can this tour get any better than that???? She even played the Jurassic Park theme song as she drove us up the coast road to find parking at An Corran Beach. I was too excited! The view from the parking lot above as we made our way down to the beach. 

I think I may have read about dinosaur footprints in United Kingdom before, but it never cross my mind that I would get to see them in Isle of Skye. I knew there were some dinosaur stuff to see on Skye too, but I figure most people won't be interested, or that it would be too out of the way. So I am beyond excited when she said we will get to see actual footprints!

Above is just a human foot print :P  I thought it was interesting. 

Some info on the type of dinosaur that used to roam this area. Isn't that cool???? Do we have dinosaurs in South East Asia? I know China has them. Did a quick google search and apparently Laos and Thailand does have dinosaur remains...... I guess Malaysia and Singapore doesn't have sufficient land space to support these creatures......

Making our way down to the beach. We even helped a local man carry some of his stuff down to the beach. Actually he just simply reached out to me and my husband as we were walking pass him and handed us his stuff, lol. Jada told us later that that was part of the way of living in Skye where people just ask other people for help when they need it, and people just tend to help. I mean, it's such a big island, but with so few actual people living on it..... I guess it's almost like a very very big village.

The beach itself was nothing like how I expected a beach to be. For a start, there were no soft sandy beach. It was mainly rocks and pebbles. 

There was a corner of sandy area, but the sand was more like mud, covered in seaweeds and rocks. 

Yeah, ok. Now that I'm looking at this photo above, I guess I kinda can imagine dinosaurs walking here. It really does looked like a landscape from a Jurassic age.

Jada lead us to the rockier part of the beach. Initially I didn't want to follow them as I was afraid of slipping on those wet rocks. But since they wandered off for such a long time, I myself begin to wandered nearer and nearer to the rocky area and found that it wasn't too difficult to walk on those grounds. 

A view of the beach as people went about searching for prints. To be fair, none of us knew what we were supposed to be looking for. All we saw with our untrained eyes were just rocks. 

As you can see here, some of the area was covered my moss or seaweed, making it extra slippery. On a normal day, I love moss on rocks, but not when I have to walk on them. Thank goodness for boots! Even though my cheap boots don't have great grips, at least they were seasoned boots and I could walk on them quite comfortably. 

Everyone is hard at work. I love this green photo with the reflection of the sky slightly reflected on the water. I guess nobody is going back until we see some dinosaur footprints!

After a while of failed attempts, even Jada gave up and decided to show us where the prints were. That's her in the photo above. And just in front of her was a print. -_________-"""

Can you see it? A chicken feet embedded in the rock? lol. 

Here is actually how big the foot was against mine for comparison. How amazing! Best tour ever! There were supposed to be a few more footprints along the beach, but with our untrained eyes, we still couldn't spot them on our own. To read more about the footprints found here, you can open this link here. 

I'll just leave a video here too of other dinosaur's finding on the Isle of Skye

Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Isle of Skye Tour Quirang

 

Road trip! Amazing road trip. Just look at the roads on the Isle of Skye. Our guide was such an amazing driver! I guess all guides have to be. And most of the roads were narrow too! 

Eventually we pulled up to our next spot. No, that blue van isn't our ride. Ours was white in colour. 

We were now at the top of the world again, and we were going to see the Quirang. 

Again, not really knowing what to expect. Saw some info signs along the area after we've parked and walked around to explore. There were two view point. One looking down towards the lake/sea. The other was the Quirang. I think the above is the one looking down.

And this was the view from the top of the world :P

I can't decided while photo to put up, so I'm gonna put up all!

You could see the waters, and further on the sea. And left of the photo, what a lovely landscape view!

So walk on towards the second point, was the main attraction. 

This is the Quirang! Sounds Australian doesn't it? It also looked like something from a movie scene. Probably from "Far and Away" which I kept mistaken it being shot in Scotland when it was actually Ireland. Goes, when will I get the chance to go see Ireland???

And isn't it marvelous how coorperative the sky is suddenly? It wasn't a dark blue sky, it was just a soft blue one with a hint of light clouds on it. Such a great combination for a photo with the Quirang. 

So at first I was just admiring the view, but then, as I looked closer, I saw hikers! And tracks! Tracks that went all the way into the Quirang! My jaw dropped. Oh how I would love to walk there! What a lovely hike it would be! If I ever come back to Skye, that would be on my itineraly for sure!

I also saw a guy in kilt with a lady here. I am guessing this must be a private tour :P  Some of the other tour guides wore kilt, and it was refreshing to see man in kilt :)

And this is how you pronounce Quirang in Gaelic. 

So yeah, from another angle I also took this photo, which is kinda like a front view of the Quirang, and you could zoom in and see all the walking path on the hill. I love such places. No wild dogs and no monkeys! No beers and no insect and snakes. A great place to hike!

We only stopped for like 20 minutes here, yet it left such a strong impression of the place. After which, we rolled down the road again into the lower grounds where white sheep graze on green grass sheepishly.....

Here's another lovely view of the sheeps. 

There were also spots of waterfalls flowing down the slope of the hill.  Some small....

And some larger ones too.....

All those water made us thirsty. We had a toilet break at a small stop area, and there was a local brewery shop there, so we got a bottle of cider to share. That's when Jada learned a little bit more about how I always travel with a bottle opener with me :X   lol

Bye Bye to teh beautiful Quirang! You looked just like a movie scene to me!

Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Isle of Skye Tour Fairy Glen (2/2)

Still exploring the Fairy Glen, we walked on and came to a path between two miniature hills. Doesn't it looked like a portal into another world? Just beyond there! A magical fairy world exist! 

My husband standing there observing the portal :D

But soon, it was time to turn back again, and we quickly made our way back from were we came from. 

I just love the land here. It felt so free just to run around a varse land like this. It felt like you could touch the sky too! And the whole world seems to be just below you. What a place! 

And then we came to maybe the most mysterious place of all. We walked past a ground of trees that looked just like branches. 

I can't remember what time it was, but the sun was shining through those branches, and everything just illuminate up. The shadows of the branches on the green glass were so beautiful, as those against the blue skies. 

Here is a portrait photo. I felt so happy at this spot, but I don't really know why. 

And so I just kept taking photos, of basically nothing but a bunch of branchy trees by the path :)

My Selfie :)

And this beautiful one my husband took of me  :)

This was my favourite photo here, 2nd only to the circle glass inside the glen :)