The day started out a little too early for me. I'm not sure why but I woke up at 6. It more than likely had to do with the snoring cow I was in bed with. At home I refuse to sleep in the same room as Tony. I don't really have that luxury in these hotels and bed and breakfasts. I do have my rain and thunder sound maker on my iPad. I'm sure it's quite confusing for the people in rooms close by that might hear it.
Our breakfast was nice and Mrs. Doubtfire talked with us. We figured out it's not penguins all over the house but puffins. Slight difference. LOL If she said "lovely" and "guud" once, she said it twenty times. Such a happy lot these Scottish. I like them!
We headed to Durness and saw some incredible sights. The coastline is rocky and cliffy. We found Smoo cave and walked down to it. We found beautiful beaches and stopped to take pictures. We were going across one little bridge out in nowhere and Tony wanted to hike down by the water to see it. Again, we meandered our way around the top left edge of the island and saw sights that words nor pictures can ever capture.
The roads through this part of the highlands are nothing more than single track lanes that go carts would traverse. Every 50 feet or so there are what they call passing places. The way it works is that when you see another car coming, the first one that comes to a passing place is supposed to pull over and let the other pass.
This works great when you know what you're doing. For those of us that are new to this fun little activity it seems a lot like playing chicken because of course the goal is to not have to be the one to stop. And let's not forget the added challenge of having sheep and cows in the road. If I don't have bleeding ulcers by the time this trip is over, it's gonna be a miracle!!!
After coming through Durness and heading south, I had to give Tony the reality check of his goal to see Ireland. We made the hard decision to skip Isle of Skye and head south toward Glasgow. It wasn't easy to give up on our planned route, but realizing we could spend a month in the highlands alone we're grateful for what we have seen.
I'm a huge Harry Potter fan so we stopped in to see the bridge the train crosses to get to Hogwarts. It's pretty but off at a distance. The movie production of it is far more glamorous than the hill top view we had. Nonetheless, it was cool to see it and get a picture. Now if J. K. Rowling would get back to writing about Harry. I miss him!!
On the way back to civilization the GPS took us on a "short cut". We were back to single lane roads that were very curvy and had trees. It became a little spooky as night began to fall. We saw a baby deer and got his picture. He sat and looked at us for the longest time. His momma ran out the other end of the road and we shewed him toward her.
We avoided the sheep, cows, and cars along the way. There was a body of water that was to our left and Tony kept looking for the bridge to cross. I told him we must be driving around the end of it because the GPS was counting down to a turn. However, when we got to the place to turn, the GPS said "Turn left and board the ferry". If only we had an in car camera to have captured the look on both of our faces. We just knew we were screwed and would have to travel back the way we had just come. Fortunately the ferry ran every twenty minutes for a fairly small fee.
We made it back on the road after a 5 minute ride across the water. We drove through a glen for the first part of the trip and the car in front of us hit a deer. The rest of the way was pretty much intense, and the planned sleep I was hoping for didn't happen. We're now in Kilmarnock and expect to head to Ireland tomorrow. Let's hope that trip is a little less eventful than today!!
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