Storyteller Tours
Road to The Isles & Skye Tour
A Shennachie’s Road to the Isles and Skye Tour
12 Hour Tour
Leave Inverness: 08.30
Return Inverness: 20.30
Pick Up: Outside Highland House of Fraser Kilt and Dressmakers, 4-9 Huntly Street, Inverness, IV3 5PR. (On the North side of the bridge)
Loch Ness
Tour Schedule
Please note that the sequence and length of the stops can change if the weather is unfavourable. I try to keep you dry if possible, but it is Scotland!
Shortly after leaving Inverness we come across The Caledonian Canal, Loch Dochfour and the Lord and Lady Dochfour.
Loch Ness Photo Opportunity – Watch a Beastie whisperer call the Loch Ness Monster out for a wee £1M photograph. I’ll tell you about the geological event of how the loch was created and how the beasties survived all this time. Of scientists and enthusiasts that are still searching for Nessie A raft of other facts and legends including an introduction to the legends of the Fae.
We will stop for a short walk down to the shores of Loch Ness, take some photos of the fantastic scenery and maybe even catch the monster hunting its breakfast.
Onwards to Urquhart Castle, on the shore of Loch Ness, Admire the military or financial setting of the castle, on a rocky promontory with an open outlook up and down Loch Ness which was the only way to travel when the castle was built. Who fought over its ownership? Who destroyed it? (please note this is a viewpoint visit not a walk round the ruin which would eat up our time and incur entrance costs.)
On to the wee village of Invermoriston its connection to fairy folklore and the home of the chief of Clan Grant
Out the parliament road through Glenmoriston, Strath Clunie and the Battlefield at Glenshiel. Rob Roy MacGregor was here with 300 Spanish allies fighting for the Jacobite cause against Hanoverian government troops on 10th June 1719.
Down to the Atlantic coast and up to Carr Brae viewpoint. One of the best scenic roads in Scotland.
Photo opportunities of Eilean Donan castle (please note this is a viewpoint visit not a walk round the castle which would eat up our time and incur entrance costs though It may be considered in exceptionally wet weather.) and up to Kyle of Lochalsh.
We cross the Skye bridge. (750 metres, (weather permitting) You on foot and meet me on the other side).
Eilean Donan Castle
Fairy Pools
On to Broadford and then past Sligachan Hotel and Telford bridges to the premier rock climbing area in the British Isles, The Cullin mountains and the magnificent Fairy Pools where you may be bold enough to go swimming with the Fae! A series of 4 degrees celsius pools and waterfalls in the crater of an old volcano where the fairies bathe. It’s a 2km walk out and back, likely in the rain! So come dressed for everything!
Now up to the Island’s largest village, Portree, for a photo of the colourful harbour, A coffee or a dram in a café or pub! Or perhaps a stroll round the shops.
The 3 hour return journey off Skye and back to Inverness is broken by The Legend of Saucy Mary in Kyleakin, anything we didn’t do because of weather, wildlife spotting and a chance to learn the ancient art of “Coo stealing!” Aye! Hairy ginger coos. It’s an honourable profession!