Scotland Fog - In the Highlands

Scotland Fog and the Highlands

Thanks for reading this blog. We really enjoy sharing our experience with our Family and Friends. We miss our Family and our Friends, but are very blessed to be able to do this trip and this blog is a great way to let you guys know what we've been up to and also remember what we've done on this trip for when we move onto our next part of our life.

This latest blog is about our drive up to Isle of Skye into the Highlands. This is one of our most favorite parts of Scotland. I keep thinking of William Wallace and wonder how they kept dry living in huts. It's very wet in the highlands. This is the map of our journey and it shows where Isle of Skye is. Just to save you from Googling it yourself:)

More specifically our drive to Isle of Skye was especially our favorite, again it's the HIGHLANDS in Scotland. Such an incredible drive. We've seen so much mountains, hills, trees and lakes on our previous 60 hour road trip through the US and Canada, but the Highlands is unique in itself.

It's mostly wilderness, so many Lochs (Lakes) and mountains (most of them being large hills).

The highest mountain is Ben Nevis at 4400 feet (Ben Nevis is probably Gaelic for Mountain Wiskey, or Scottish Pride, or a clan that fought someone). Anyways, that is almost as high as the foothills in BC, but it's still the high (tallest in Great Britain). The only problem was I don't think we saw it. We were watching for it, but the fog was thick and we just didn't know which mountain would have been Ben Nevis. We thought a sign would have been helpful. 'This is Ben Nevis'. We might have seen it and didn't know it.

The Fog was so cool that day. It wasn't raining most of the time, it was just Fog and it didn't cover everywhere, it stayed in patches making the mountains look oh so cool. We were able to snap some awesome pictures.

Here the fog looked like a massive waterfall coming down between two large mountains. (see picture).

I don't think this is Ben Nevis, but it's a cool range and this is a great picture of my gorgeous wife!

Sailboats

Random pics of Sailboats. My dream hasn't come true yet, but it's to have a sailboat with Lissa and travel the world of Great Lakes in Ontario.

Eilean Donan

This Castle was a ruin for 300 years or so until the 1930s when someone from the Clan of McRae somehow managed to fund and rebuild this castle almost completely from nothing. Its' amazing. This castle is the most photographed Castle in all of Scotland. It's amazing to see. Monty Python was here. In one of his movies. The Castle is comfortably located between Loch Douich and some other Loch.

We didn't get there until it was closed, so we couldn't go in this time, but we did on our way back from the Isle of Skye.

This is us! We are the Gatekeepers of this great Scottish Castle. Too bad they don't know I'm German.

Say tuned in for Isle of Skye...