Sleat Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, Spring
Skye’s Sleat peninsula often gets overlooked.
Skye’s Sleat peninsula often gets overlooked.
It’s understandable why. When the island contains wonders such as the Cuillins, the Quiraing, the Storr, the Fairy Pools and more, why would you go to the extreme south/south-west of the island?
In my experience, Sleat is where you take photos from, not of. While the peninsula does have some lovely coastline, arguably it’s finest aspect is the views you can get from its southern and northern shores.
Looking south across the Sound of Sleat one can enjoy immense views of the Knoydart mountains, such as Ladhar Bheinn, Meall Buidhe, and Luinne Bheinn.
Over the peninsula onto its northern shores, Sleat harbours beautiful beaches and craggy coastlines, punctuated by bonny little crofting settlements, such as Tarskavaig, Tokavaig, and Ord. These places get unparalleled views across Loch Eishort towards the entire Cuillins range.
My advice: Give yourself a day to explore Sleat. You won’t regret it.
All photos taken on my Sony α7ii using my Rokinon 14mm f2.8 ED AS IF UMC and Pentax SMC 28mm F3.5 prime lenses, and my Vivitar “Series 1” 70–210mm f2.8–4.0 zoom lens. RAWs developed in Lightroom then edited and finalised in Photoshop.
Sleat Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland Spring by Ian Cylkowski is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Armadale, Sleat Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Even though we’ve been to Skye a few times now, we’d never actually explored the Sleat peninsula of southern Skye until recently.
Even though we’ve been to Skye a few times now, we’d never actually explored the Sleat peninsula of southern Skye until recently.
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Sleat is rather unlike the rest of Skye. Whereas most of Skye is mountainous, rugged, lined with cliffs, punctuated with moorland, Sleat is more about rolling hills and pastoral land. It also offers wonderful views across the Sound of Sleat towards the Knoydart mountains.
As well as checking out the peninsula’s coastline and views, we also explored the ruins of Armadale Castle and its grounds. It wasn’t the best day in terms of light and weather, but the scenery doesn’t really need it.
Photos taken on a Fujifilm X-T2 with a Samyang 12mm f/2 NCS.