Arrival in Elgol
Elgol is a small, remote village that overlooks the bottom of the Cuillin range of hills. Our self catering cottage was almost on the beach itself which meant quick access if we had great weather.. Unfortunately we had some pretty bad weather but it was only wet on two days out of the six so I won’t be complaining.
On the first night I went out and passed three photographers on the beach who were quite snooty (I imagine they’d expected a quiet time on such a secluded beach). At least we don’t have the American symptom of herds of photographers at key spots.
I took a photograph of the abandoned croft house which appears at the top of this page. Unfortunately, I didn’t take into account how fast the light was fading and the photo is about one to one and a half stop under exposed and appears as below (and I didn’t take a second shot in order to prevent spousal retribution). I need to take a reference light check just before exposing the shot (or get a bit faster at reading exposure levels).
I took a photograph out of the window in the morning to show the view however. If anybody is interested in staying in this accomodation, the website is here, the prices are very reasonable and you get free, fresh lobster, prawns and fish as the owners own a fleet of fishing boats.
