Isle of Skye

Isle of Skye. The sun set at around 11:30 and was back up again before 4, never having dipped more than 12 degrees below the horizon and keeping the night sky lit all night long. A lot of natural beauty here along with some really old Scottish history. We stayed in a hostel in the port town of Portree. This was the most out there I think I've ever felt...

View from Quiraing

Scrambling

Coastline

Sheep

Kilt Rock Waterfall

The Old Man of Storr

View of the Port from Portree Independent Hostel

Portree

The Scottish Highlands

The destination was Isle of Skye, way way up there in northern Scotland. It was a five hour drive from St. Andrews. We rented a car and I drove the whole way up in heavy rain in classic Scottish style, on the left side of the road, two lane highway. It was a real challenge and every time a truck thundered by I thought I was going to die. So we made a few stops at the lochs and in Glencoe on the way up...

Isle of Skye on the map

Snow

Loch Lamond

 

Logging

There was a surprising amount of logging going on in the highlands from what I could tell. It seemed more or less organized, with big square plots of land shaved bare, then next to it a plot with short trees, then next to that a plot with medium trees, and so on and so forth all the way to full grown trees. Tree farming.

Glencoe

St. Andrews

My cousin goes to St. Andrews University. We stayed there for one night on the way up to the highlands...

Cam at Uni

Old Course at St. Andrews, est. 1552

St. Andrews Cathedral, est. 1158

The Coffee Shop

Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland for a couple days...

Castle Rock Hostel

University of Edinburgh

Bubbles

Cuz chillin

European Disposable (Nice)

Disposable pictures from my one day in Nice, France.

Beachgoers (Nice)

Avenue

Beach

Man showering

Kids playing in fountain

Suntanning

Men showering

Selfie

European Disposable (Croatia)

I experienced a number of camera scares on this trip. In one case I put an open bottle of water in my backpack and got my camera soaked. At first it worked, then it didnt, then I got new batteries and it worked, then it didnt, then the light meter worked but the shutter didnt, before finally...dead. So I had to buy a disposable. The following are some disposable pics from an island off the coast of Croatia called Hvar.

Kenj in the Adriatic

The water was the clearest I'd ever seen. Lots of sea urchins. You'd see people walking around the island with thick cotton padding stuck to the bottom of their foot...they had stepped on one. 

Boat life

The only club is located on an even smaller island right of the Hvar coast. Every night starting at 1am shuttle boats would start taking partiers from Hvar to Carpe Diem just 10 minutes away. 

Hvar Harbor and town square

The population of this tiny island town triples in the summer from around 4 to 12 thousand. 

A regional map. Hvar is the long thin horizontal one.

Beachgoers

The view from my room in hostel Villa Skansi.

The hostel I stayed in was a converted household. Mom Dad and the two kids would be around during the day. Momma Skansi and I shared coffee one morning. She explained how they began the 108 bed hostel five years ago and now make enough money in the summer to not work at all in winter. Apparently Hvar is absolutely dead then, you cant even order a pizza. They plan on moving to Zagreb after this summer season so the kids can have more options for school and play etc...  

Widelux 5 (Leila's Graduation)

my sister graduated high school and is going to UCSB like her big bro im so proud :)