Under Bracadale skies

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The Three Chimneys: Recipes & Reflections
The Three Chimneys

By Shirley Spear

Published 2010

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When you arrive in Skye and take the main road up the western side of the island, your journey at first takes you over a wild stretch of moorland. The Cuillin Mountains are behind you and the long road winds its way into the distance. You emerge at the other end around a wide sweeping bend. The view out to sea and beyond, to The Minch and the Outer Hebrides, is breathtaking. This is Bracadale -home to spectacular skies - and to the big brown crab.

Under Bracadale skies Loch Harport sweeps out to sea between the steep sides of Bracadale Point and the lighthouse on the tip of Portnalong. The deep inlet of Loch Beag provides a natural harbour for boats moored by the jetty at Struan. To the north-west, the flat tops of MacLeod’s Tables soar high above. Whatever the time of day, or the time of year, you will be as spellbound by this vista as I always am.