Isle of Skye

Our fourth day in Scotland was on the Isle of Skye.  We stayed in the very charming village of Portree.  That's me, looking at the water.

 Skye is very sparsely populated and most of the day was spent driving around and looking at the mountains.   I didn't take a lot of pictures.  But I did take a picture of this:

 Scottish thistles are wicked, I was truly impressed by them.  They are even more stickery and spiny than the Canadian thistles I grew up with.  They are the official flower of Scotland.  Legend has it that Vikings invaded Scotland on a regular basis (I think that part is actually true).  One day, in the fort while waiting to be invaded, the lookouts got sleepy and nodded off.  The Vikings landed and were creeping up to the fort, but someone stepped in a patch of thistles and yelled.  This woke everyone in the fort up, and they were able to beat back the Vikings.

Doesn't the weather look beautiful.  I had expected it to be chilly and rainy most of the time.  We were so lucky and had sunshine for most of the trip.