Wet Shoes, or Day 25 in Portree and Elgol

With a full Scottish breakfast (which might or might not mean eggs, toast, potato scones, bacon that's more like ham, and sausage), we got to the bus just in time for our two-hour journey to Elgol, on the southwestern part of the island. As we got on the bus, an American girl asked if we were going to do the boat tour of the loch by Elgol. We started chatting about our vacations, and made it to Broadford, where we had to switch buses. While we were waiting at that stop, I was talking about how we were couch-surfing the next leg of our trip, and a French woman started talking to us about her couch-surfing experiences! Two friends in the course of an hour!

We "convinced" the Frenchwoman to come on the boat tour with us, and we all got our tickets.

We walked along the rocky beach for a bit to an over-cropping of porous rock. We figured it was volcanic because it looked like a solidified sponge.

The weather this morning was wet, drizzly, and rainy, so the additional ponchos Misty Isle Boat Trips gave us right before we got on the boat were a welcome additional protection. We cruised out to the entrance to Loch Coruick, and saw some seals on the way!

It was still kinda gross, but we had an hour and a half until the boat went back, so Alex and I and the American girl headed up the loch.

We started on a path, but turned off it once it became too muddy. We continued around the bend, and kept going and scrambling along.

Our shoes were getting wetter and muddier, and we had quite a few paths that were pretty close to going straight through water. After a little under an hour, we were at a lookout over the the loch. It was still pretty misty, but it was pretty pretty.

We cruised back, then slogged with our wet shoes back to the bus and Portree. We dried and headed to dinner.