Day 28 August 8th Skye to Elgin

Day 28 August 8th Skye to Elgin
It was a with a slight sadness that we left the beautiful B&B, Cliffe House at Skye although it will be uppermost in my mind when I think of the places we have stayed at. Within five minutes we were traversing the only land link Skye has with Scotland; the Skye Bridge, then passing through Kyle before reaching open country; the highlands of Scotlands. With lakes and high green hills all around us the time passed quickly. We made frequent photo stops; the reflections in the lakes of the hills, sky and clouds being irresistible. After travelling about 53 Miles we reached Loch Ness, home of the famed monster which was nowhere to be seen. Eleven miles further we stopped at a delightful village of Drumnadrochit; the home of the Loch Ness Monster. Fay spent an hour researching the monster in the large exhibition building while I lay on a grassy slope in the warm sunshine. Then on towards Inverness to visit the Colloden Battle Field where on the 16th April 1746 the last battle to be fought on British soil took less than an hour to reach its bloody conclusion here on what is now know as Culloden Moor. It was a battle between Government and the Jacobite army which included French units and some English Jacobites. It was the last chapter in a sporadic civil war for succession to the throne that had been under way since 1688.
Onward to Elgin; we had left the highlands some miles before and were now travelling through open rolling fields of green and various shades ranging from brown to golden; a patchwork of green grass fields, brown tilled soils and ripening golden grain fields. Just before Elgin we refuelled the vehicle; diesel was £1.289 per litre. ($NZ2.65) We arrived at “The Pines” our place of rest for the next two nights at 5pm.
We had travelled about 120miles.