Slightly more detailed views of the Fairy Pools in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The water really is blue.
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This was our last day on the Isle of Skye. Most of this set shows the pools in the landscape. I made sure that we arrived at the pools early, around 8 AM, before the main rush of tourists. By midday, there were people everywhere, which is not good for landscape photography. They even went into the pools!
Fairy Pools walk on the Isle of Skye in Scotland – A link to details about hiking at the Fairy Pools and getting there.
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The introduction to 3 posts:
The Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye, historically known as Coire na Creiche, combine striking natural beauty with deep Gaelic and clan history. Their name reflects a later romanticized association with fairies rather than documented folklore, while their past includes a brutal 1601 clan battle between the MacLeods and MacDonalds. Today, the pools are valued for their vivid waters, dramatic Black Cuillin setting, and growing popularity as a destination where landscape, history, and cultural storytelling meet. See Fairy Pools – Wikipedia.
Glen Brittle (Gleann Breadail in Scottish Gaelic) is a large glen in the south of the Isle of Skye, in Scotland. It runs south to north, along the River Brittle, which has its mouth at Loch Brittle (a sea loch). The glen is bounded on the east by the main Black Cuillin ridge, the largest mountain range on Skye. The name is probably derived from old Norse Bred Dal (“broad valley”) with the Gaelic glean (“valley”) prefixed later.
Brittle’s tributaries run into the glen, including a stream with waterfalls known as the Fairy Pools. There are two hamlets in the south of the glen – Glenbrittle and Bualintur. In 2024 a lost 17th- or 18th-century farming settlement known as Brunell was discovered. Once home to over 2000 people, it was abandoned in the 19th century due to the amalgamation of small farms.
In the northern woods and fields, red deer can be seen. Rabbits and swallows are mostly in the farmland in the south. Ruddy turnstones, ringed plovers, grey herons, dunlins, curlews, and oystercatchers can be found on the beach.
There are sheep all over the Isle of Skye. I put a few of them in this post. In the next two posts I will show the pools.
Isle of Skye Scenes more
A few more from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. I now have lots of new sky pictures to use if I need to swap a sky in an image. The last three by Marc were taken by the bridge.
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Ardvasar’s Gaelic name is traditionally translated as “Point of the Executioner,” though the word Bàsar (executioner) is linguistically unclear. Gaelic was once nearly universal in the area—99% of residents spoke it in 1891, with one‑fifth speaking only Gaelic. By 2011, Gaelic ability had declined to 26.7%. Despite this drop, local institutions remain strong: Sleat Primary School is a designated Gaelic-medium school, and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s Gaelic college, is located nearby. Source: Ardvasar – Wikipedia
Ardesvar, Isle of Sky 5/6/2026
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Marc didn’t enjoy driving on the narrow, single-lane road to Ardvasar. The challenging drive was well worth it. Ardvasar is the main village on the southern Sleat Peninsula of Skye. The village is reached by a scenic single-track road through woodland and along the coast, with views across to Knoydart. Key features include the Ardvasar Food Store, Community Hall, historic Ardvasar Hotel, residential areas, and views over the Sound of Sleat. The road continues to Aird of Sleat, a viewpoint and walking destination.
I enhanced the second photograph of the bare tree to bring it out. Marc loves walls. His photograph is the second to last.
Duntulm Castle
Duntulm Castle sits on a rocky promontory near the settlement of Duntulm on Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula, protected by cliffs and a ditch on the landward side. The ruins are now unstable and much reduced from their condition in the 1880s, due to stone reuse, erosion, and collapse, including a tower falling into the sea in 1990. The site may have origins as an Iron Age fort, later used by the Norse, the MacLeods, and then the MacDonalds of Sleat, who improved the castle before abandoning it around 1730. Local legends connect the ruins with tragic deaths and ghosts, including a nursemaid and Hugh MacDonald. Duntulm Castle – Wikipedia for details. You’ll have to imagine seeing the doors on the castle.
The museum was fun: The Skye Museum of Island Life – An Old Highland Village
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: Old Sturbridge Village 6-26 – No Facilities.
Isle of Skye Scenes’
An assortment from the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
