Inverie in a bay of the same name on Loch Nevis has only one road and it goes nowhere! Land Rovers and tractors drive up and down with perceivable frequency between houses and hostels and whatever borders the road but there is no way into or out of the village apart from by sea. All the vehicules, supplies and stuff to build the village must have been brought in that way. The heart of the community is The Old Forge pub which owns the 11 moorings just off the shore. The mooring for the night is free as long as you have a meal in the pub, otherwise it would be £15 a night. We had a wonderful sea food meal that evening in the pub! There are wonderful walks through the woods and along the foreshore. Left in the morning with a bit of a gale in the offing to head up north.
Leaving Inverie
The aim of this day was to reach Plockton on Loch Carron as that had been recommended to us by other more travelled sailors. The route was NE up the Sound of Sleat between Skye and the mainland, a little wiggle through the narrow Kyle Rhea cut into Loch Aish where we turn west and go under the new (1995) Skye bridge then take a right for 5 miles to Plockton. Fortunately the wind was mostly behind us blowing force 4 to 5 giving us a maximum recorded speed of 8.4 knots. About a 30 mile trip.
View down Loch Aish showing where we had come from, taken from the centre of the Skye bridge. We took a train and walked to the bridge the next day.
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