The next morning the bus was leaving a 9am, everyone managed to get up in time and get down to the bus to head off to Rogie Falls and Loch Carron. At this point I should point out we are in the Highlands, unfortunately the name is a tad misleading, they aren’t very high, in comparison to the mountains in the New Zealand they are more like big hills. But the scenery is very nice, being late autumn the trees were all different shades of yellow and red. A lot of it is very similar to the scenery in New Zealand.

Somewhere along the drive, Doug and I jumped out of the bus to give a demonstration for the tour group and anyone driving past of how the Scots put out brush fires. It basically consists of large tennis racquets and you beat the grass. To me it is looks like it is more likely fan the flames into a large inferno, but hey, each to their own.

After a lunch on the shore overlooking the Isle of Skye, we visited Eilean Donan Castle, the castle seen in the ‘Highlander’ movie series. Actually we sore a lot of movie famous castles, we saw the two castles from ‘Monty python and the Holy Grail’ and the ‘bridge of death’ where you must answer me these questions three:

Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop! What... is your name?
Arthur: It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I-- I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!

Heheh, anyways… after the various castles and battlefields (there isn’t much to take a photo at these really, it is just a grass paddock, swamp or forest) we glanced at Fort William and Glen Coe before heading to Oban to spend the night.