Today we awoke at our wonderful B&B, Ben Tianavaig, and to a yummy breakfast prepared for us by Bill and Charlotte, the owners.  Bill made introductions for us all around the room, and we were able to enjoy some pleasant conversation with our fellow guests.

Unfortunately these photos are a bit deceiving, while Ray has just recently taken them this evening, our morning weather was rainy.  Our original plan was to drive up the North East coast and take in the sites of the The Old Man of Stoor and Kilt Rock before heading over the Quiraing, a single-track road we've been told has wonderful views.  Bill informed us that what is true of the mainland Scottish weather, is also true on Skye, so just because it was raining in Portree didn't mean it was raining in the West.  So we cut the North East portion of our day trip out for now and headed for the West coast and Dunvegan Castle.  Dunvegan Castle has been home to the Chief of Clan MacLeod for over 800 years, and is (I believe) the oldest castle that is still inhabited. Once again, we were not able to take photos on the inside, but the castle houses many different pieces of the clan history, a facinating history and some killer views of Loch Dunvegan, which is really part of the sea. The Castle also has some extensive gardens, which we only had a brief opportunity to explore, before the Corinn-needs-feeding monster began to rear her head. So we opted for a take away lunch of sandwiches and headed down a very narrow, very busy single track road to find the coral beaches, not far from the Castle.  Well the drive was a bit harrowing, as it was my first single track road, and then the parking was a whole other experience, because we weren't the only ones with the same idea, but fortunately we had taken the full coverage out on the car, so parking in the mud and bushes seemed less of a concern than it might have otherwise.  I did fail to notice the "1 Mile to Coral Beach" sign we passed on our stroll out... and wondered why it took us so long to arrive... Can you see it off in the distance? And... because apparently we don't have cows in Vermont.... Ray took this photo.... The weather did improve, and we had a lovely drive home this evening.  Here is one of Ray's (very cool) HDR photos.... not sure what he does to make them, but I know he takes a series of 3 photos at different exposures?  Maybe?  And then somehow compiles them.  Any way he does it, they turn out AMAZINGLY!