Orbost Beach
August 22, 2007
Today we decided to go to Orbost, a 5 minute drive from our house. Officially it’s called “Orbost Estate” and it’s currently owned by Highland and Island Enterprises who bought it from the MacDonald Family. The estate covers over 1850 hectares and like many locations on Skye, it’s a place with impressive natural beauty. Today we decided to walk along the beach towards a point called “Meall Greepa”.
Orbost beach is a rocky beach which makes a bit hard for swimming, although you can find spots where you can take a dip but rubber beach shoes are required to make it in and out the water. The water is crisp clear and there are lots of little bays where you can sit on the rocks and let your feet hang in the water.
During our walk we found that the rocks in some of the bays had large numbers of mussels on them. As they looked quite eatable, I decided to suffer some wet shoes and catch us some for an afternoon snack. So I got in the water - up to the knees - and got us a reasonable portion of mussels. We drove back home and enjoyed the mussels with some home made whisky sauce (mayonnaise, ketchup, salt, pepper and a little splash of Jura single malt). It was delicious!!
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