This walk, which was well attended (nine), set off from the Quiraing car park but headed south into the blazing sun towards Bioda Buidhe (pronounced beete booye and meaning the yellow pointed top), rather than north to the Quiraing.
Looking back towards the Quiraing.
Looking east over Cleat
Looking south towards Beinn Edra (600 m)
In retrospect, I'm not sure when we reached the top of Biode Buide as no one mentioned it, there was no cracking open bottles of champagne, no hugging or selfies, no planting flags 'n stuff like that. Guess that's just the British way.
To the east, mountains on the Scottish mainland, before which we see the northernmost part of the island of Rona, then Loch Mealt on Skye, and Loch Cleap (with reeds).
If one zooms into Rona on the above image, one can see what I thought was the steamer Waverley when seen through binoculars but Ella said it couldn't be at that time of the year. Besides, the Waverley has two red funnels, not one white funnel, and it moves. This turned out to be Rona lighthouse.
Mmm, what should we do now?
A hang glider manages to stay airborne despite the almost total lack of wind.
On our way down. The Outer Hebrides can be seen in the distant haze.
This time last year it was snowing on Skye.
