03/06/2026
Insert the Old Man of Storr here 🙌😬
It’s been a misty couple of days on tour on the Isle of Skye 😅.
Rain hasn’t been too bad, but we’ve spent a fair bit of time in the clouds. The biggest challenge with some of Skye’s most popular sights isn’t rain or wind, it’s visibility. When the mist comes in, it comes in!
Ideally you’d have enough time on the island to work around it, and I can do that on a tour too. But right now it’s been almost every day, which is a challenge even with flexibility built in!
The first time I visited Skye I only had a weekend, since I was working in Edinburgh at the time. It was pretty cloudy, although we managed to catch the Old Man of Storr in the mist and wind, which has its own kind of magic.
Later I kept seeing photos of these dramatic, huge black mountains and assumed I must have just missed that part of the island entirely.
On subsequent trips I realised I’d driven past the Cuillins multiple times. They’d just been completely hidden in thick cloud 😂.
It’s called the Misty Isle for a reason, after all!
