Yorkshire Walks

Looking south across the bay in the morning sunlight

Here the main road turns inland heading north and there is a minor road forking right which continues around the bay. We followed this road around the bay for about 400m to a small car park at map ref. NG489438.

This morning we had a short walk from Portree itself. From our holiday cottage we walked down to the harbour. We followed the main road (A855) around the bay to map ref. NG485437.

Path from the car park next to the shore

View point looking across the bay to Portree

Apparently seals sometimes haul out along this stretch of the shore but we did not see any of them.

Here the road ends and we continued on a track around the bay next to the rocky shore.

Footpath next to the shore

Footpath next to the shore

As we rounded the headland at map ref. NG493435 we could see a large vessel ahead of us which turned out to be moored alongside a salmon farm in the sea between Skye and the island of Raasay.

The weather was the usual mix of showers and bright sunshine which gave us some lovely effects looking across the bay to the harbour in Portree.

Our first sight of the salmon farm between Skye and Raasay

Our little path took us along the shoreline to map ref. NG497440 where we crossed a little stream and passed through a pedestrian gate into some pasture land rising up from the rocky shore. This area is called Bile Pasture. We crossed the pasture to a stile over the fence in the northern corner at map ref. NG500445.

A boggy area on the coastal path

Vessel moored at the salmon farm

Vessel moored at the salmon farm

Heading down the hillside from Torvaig

We continued down through the woods to the minor road above the shoreline at map ref. NG487438. At the road we retraced our steps to Portree harbour where we booked a boat trip to see the white tailed sea eagles in the afternoon. It's turning out to be a very pleasant break on this lovely island.

Here we doubled back on a wide track climbing up the hillside to the hamlet of Torvaig at map ref. NG495445. We continued past the houses and down a track to two large agricultural sheds at map ref. NG492444. The track led us between these sheds and from there we followed a path down the hillside to some woodland on the edge of Portree.

Path though the woods on the edge of Portree