West Coast of Scotland (around Skye)

[theplayingmantis]

Will be spending a week or so in the area in mid sept. Any must sees? OH wants to see the fairy pools on Skye? dont want to travel too far (under 200miles once near skye) looking at different places as we will be driving from edinburgh, and i will be driving up from East Anglia beforehand so will already be lots of miles before we get to Skye/west coast.

[theplayingmantis]

three chimneys is on her list! possibly staying there if that's a thing.

im leaving accommodation to her and itinerary mostly but wanted a few ideas in case she misses stuff

[theplayingmantis]

cheers all, she wants to use calmac hopscoth and go oban-mull-barra-uist-harris/Lewis then skye

to my untrained eye this looks way to much to pack in a week/10 days, as wont be enough time to look at things.

am i right?

if so given skye is the main goal how would skipping Oban/Mull/Barra/Uist and just going Skyle/Harris/Lewis be time wise. is that doable in a week?

sure to be more questions to come

Cheers

[theplayingmantis]

GetCarter said:

theplayingmantis said:

if so given skye is the main goal how would skipping Oban/Mull/Barra/Uist and just going Skyle/Harris/Lewis be time wise. is that doable in a week?

Cheers

That's certainly doable. The thing with the Outer Hebrides is you really need good weather as there is sod all to do. It's not far from here so we go once or twice a year - but ONLY when the weather is good.

But when it's good....

http://stevecarter.com/Hebrides/Hebrides.htm

BTW our fave drive on Skye is the road to Elgol in the south. This was a couple of months ago:

being ignorant, and not having looked at any Oo/s maps yet i thought there be lots of bits to look at, landmarks to hike too etc, so thought that big island hop would mean not much time left to do it.

but you think its ok?

edit do you mean her plan of going everywhere, or mine of reducing to Lewis/Harris/Skye