Skye Trail Day Six

Day Six Camasunary to Torrin

We awake and I see what the view is like and unzip the door. Large army of midges waiting for us. So packing up is not going be easy and it wasn’t. By now the ground we were on was very uneven and full of holes. Not a good spot to put a tent.

So packing took a bit longer and for me it took longer as the plastic liners was causing packing problems.

Our route today would take us down the coast and round to Torrin. The cloud base was down to 100/ 200m as we set off.  We had another option of doing a Munroe but we wanted to do the coast. No good going high today. We head away from the beach and find the path that runs along the cliffs above the sea. The path is narrow in places and over grown trees cause a few problems getting though with our rucksacks. Some parts of the path have steep drops straight down to the sea. Just hope we don’t trip. Looking out to sea we can see the small ferryboats taking people to the head of Loch Coruisk. Further along we drop down to a stone beech with a lovely grassy bank at the back. Would have made a great camping spot if we known.

From here we carry on to the small village of Elgol and as we approach we can see a couple of eagles high up above us. Elgol has a scatting of white washed houses as we enter from the top of the village and the carry on down to the small harbour. Which does small fishing boats and the little ferries to Loch Coruisk use. A couple of companies have offices on the quayside.  There is a small café at the top that was closed, but if you go past the toilets you will find the village hall. At the far end are a small shop selling food and a small café. Where we enjoyed home made soup, lemon tart and we had a take away bap. We came across a notice saying that toilets maybe closing down.

The next leg is going to be mostly on roads again.  We leave Elgol and head east along the road and soon we spot a trig point. Off route by 200 yards, but must climb it. It was a tough at 118m high.  From here we head down to the Glasnakille where there is few houses and a B&B.  We are now back with the coastline with different views.

  Follow the road north and soon it comes to an end. We now enter a small wooded area and follow this for about a mile before picking up a small road that leads up the main road to Elgol again. From here its just hard slog along the road to Torrin area. Only place we passed though was Kirkibost. Which housed John mUir office and a Fishery place.  Road was fairly busy at one point and we put it down to the ferry coming in.

As we arrive towards the far end of Loch Slapin we start thinking about camping spots. Again we have eagles flying near but not sure if its Golden or Sea Eagle.

The land start to flatten near a river coming down from the mountains and looked a good spot but DofE got there before us. So we follow the river up into a car park and again we could not find any good ground.  We wander and find another path close to a river and then we find a very small patch of grass. Just of the path hidden under the trees. Good water supply.  So we settle down here for our last night. We had a few gusts to join us. Midges.