Skye Lark: All Aboard The Star
Part One
It's been about 5 years since I worked on Skye and I've been longing to get back up there ever since.
This time Tina and Jake joined me
on a road trip up through Glen Coe,
a crack of dawn drive along Glen Nevis to a thunderous waterfall
a well worth it detour to Plockton
and then over the bridge to Skye
We went equipped with travel rods for Salmon, beach casting and spinning but the Kodak moments were so many fishing looked like taking a back seat
Skye is breathtaking, full of giants, fairy glens and campervans
no one could possibly be grumpy on Skye! in fact George turned out to be in good humour!
By mid week we'd circled the North of Skye and arrived in Isleornsay in the South East
We had a chance meeting in one of the very few shops with a retired coastguard and ex RNLI crew member who pointed out that this rock looks like a battle ship
We'd booked for a couple of nights at the Rowanbank B&B
With the fishing gear still dry, trying for the herring shoaling around the ferry terminal at Armadale looked like being the last chance to fish and we asked at our B&B where we might get something to tip the sabiki rigs;
Then the Skye Fairies sprinkled some magic dust; it turned out that our hosts Angie and Gordon had spent 20 years restoring a ninety year old 40 foot Isle of Lewis drifter that had been languishing in Grimsby before sailing it up via the Caledonian Canal and it was moored in the bay.
" Star" isn't actually available for charter but we were highly privileged to be invited to join Gordon and friends Dennis and Ralph for an afternoon feathering on the drift and with Angie dog-sitting Jake for us we jumped at the chance!
Gordon met us at the quay and took us out in the tender
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