Talisker bay
November 4, 2007
Today - no rain, not too cold - we wanted to go out for walk. We had been tipped by friends to visit Glenbrittle which has nice walks. Glenbrittle is a 30 minute drive south towards Carbost, close to the famous Talisker distillery.
Unfortunately we missed the road sign to take a left towards Glenbrittle and drove on through Carbost, Portnalong and Fiscavaig to eventually find a green signpost with “Talisker Bay” on it.
Although only 30 minutes away from our place, the Portnalong - Fiscavaig area looks different from where we live. It appears more cultivated and houses are built much closer to each other. Also, there are more trees and shrubs in contrast with the moorland you will find around Dunvegan.
As we wanted to do a walk anyway, we decided that the Talisker Bay walk would be as good as any. So we embarked on what looked like a nice footpath. Fairly quickly however, the path disappeared into the surrounding grassland and we had to do quite a bit of “island hopping” to keep the feet dry, as you can clearly see on the picture.
Towards the end of the walk we saw Talisker Bay. Unfortunately we had ran out of time and had to go back to prevent from walking the return journey in the dark, so we didn’t quite make it all the way to the shore. See the map to get an idea of the walk and the location. The red dot near Fiscavaig indicates the start.
Driving back to Skinidin, we found the traffic sign for Glenbrittle, so that will probably be the next walk.
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