Back to the Mainland

sorry its been a while since the last post. The internet gets a bit dodgey out in the islands. Between Orkney and now I spent 2 nights in the outer hebrides Lewis and Harris and 4 nights in Skye. Tarbert the town in Harris was pretty cool but skye is the best. Kyleakin is great little fishing village in the south of skye just across the bridge. 4 nights there and hiking in the red and black cuilins and a bike ride to the coast. After a short bus and ferry trip to Maileg, I took the West HIghland Railway which some might know is the filming place of the Hogwarts Express. The actual train "Hogwarts Express" still runs on the track but costs like 27 pounds to take so I took the regular one. Bu the views are great and that great aqueduct bridge in the movie runs through Glen Fadin and was so cool. I got some great pictures!!!!!!! UNFORTUNATELY i proceeded to delete them, as well as ALL of the rest of the pictures that I have taken thus far on the trip so that was a real highlight of today! I am told that they can be recovered so I bought a new card to continue with. Hopefully it is true. I"m in Fort William now and plan to stay for three days hiking though Glen Coe and Glen Nevis, two of the most beautiful glens in Scotland and then perhaps summiting Bin Nevis the highest peak in the UK. Hope everything is great back home and the such, did you here Steve Erwine died what a shocker. 3rd man in Australia to be killed by a stingray. hundreds by crocks, who woulda thought?