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Three days of driving through the Highlands and Skye, enjoying the scenery and the sights and sounds of nearly two dozen Healeys of sundry sorts thrashing along the highways, byways and single track lanes... who could resist?
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It wasn't all fun, though. But having tempted fate in going to Skye fate was kind in allowing a mix of glorious sunshine and dramatically ominous threatening weather that only once made good on its threats- and mostly when we were back on the mainland.
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The Start: Callender, Friday morning- bright and early.... well, early anyway....
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First break- alongside a loch with a castle on the far shore
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Second break, I cannae see a problem -- the tyre's only a little flat, only on the bottom....
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The Hotel, why is everyone parked as if ready for a running Le Mans style start the next morning?
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Rain? Skye's known for it
The wipers work fine, shame they cannae do the inside too....
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The Slalom, but watch out for the planes, for they use the field still....
Is there a special award for starting frontways and finishing backwards???
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Don't think of it as rainy, consider it "dramatic" weather, heightening the experience, etc.
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Another lochside break under dramatic skies, on Skye.
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Next day, still on Skye, overlooking an inlet
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Same place, but looking inland.
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Back on the Scottish mainland,
a highland loch in the distance
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Another highland loch.
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Another highland loch
(yes, there were yet more than these three shown)
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A Roadside break, how odd, no loch to overlook.
The calm before a real storm on the way to the final night's lodgings
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The final night's lodgings, or rather, the parking lot party there.
A good time was had by all....
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Monday morning,
its all over and but for the drive homewards through Glen Coe
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And along Loch Lomond:
Loch Lomond Drive
(~15 second video with sound- Caution: 3+ MB Quicktime file to download)
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