This is more like Over The Sea From Skye, as we were going from Skye to Glenelg, on the Scottish mainland.

The Glenachulish is the last manually operated turntable ferry in Scotland and is said to be ideally suited for this crossing, although she is over 40 years old. However, there has been a car ferry service across the Kylerhea Straits since 1934 and, as this it is the shortest route, the channel has been the ideal crossing point for many hundreds of years.

Cattle reared on Skye were routinely made to swim to the mainland before being herded to market along the drovers' road to Kinlochhourn and on to the Scottish Lowlands.

Following the initial Jacobite risings, Glenelg was chosen as one of four sites in the Highlands for a military barracks. These were completed in 1725 and a military road soon linked Glenelg to the rest of General George Wade's road network. Unsuccessful in preventing the 1745 uprising, and not needed after the Highland Clearances, the Bernera Barracks at Glenelg are still standing, although badly ruined.

The Ferry is run by The Isle of Skye Ferry Community Interest Company, see http://www.skyeferry.co.uk/index.html

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