Wednesday was going to be iffy weather, but there were no organized activities that we were going to do so we took the day to explore the Isle of Skye with our new hiking friends Olga and Steve. Drew especially wanted to see the Old Man of Storr.
It rained and blew pretty hard, which made for a kind of miserable hike, but the scenery when the clouds parted was quite lovely.
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| A very wet hike to Old Man of Storr |
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| The Old Man of Storr |
We wanted to do more hikes, but it was soggy so we just drove around the island.
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| Kilt Rock |
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| Quiraing viewpoint |
Thoroughly soaked, we dragged ourselves back to Raasay. Another amazing dinner was followed by some storytelling from a real Scotsman. He also educated us a bit on the Highland Clearances, where landowners removed the crofters (tenant farmers) to replace them with sheep, a cash crop. Tens of thousands of Scots were removed to Canada in the mid to late 1800s. I have never heard that my great grandparents were forcibly removed, but at the time of their emigration to Canada, many Scots did not go by choice but by necessity because there was nowhere for them to scratch out a living.
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