Visited this place in 2007 with friends, there was no car park and we had the place to ourselves! - days before you tube videos and walking programs came along. Came back in 2018 and was horrified. They had cut down a lot of the forest area to build a car park, then to charge a fiver. When i saw the people, scrawling like ants down the path it was clear this had turned into a tourist trap, nothing more. It just needed an ice cream van to top it off, and hey there was one of those too. There are better and wilder places on the island to visit, perhaps more physical effort required but worth it. I would AVOID this place at all costs, ruined for all the wrong reasons.
Your spot on..maybe an idea issue some sort of permit/day pass and limit the amount off permits issuew annually . You might say it will impact income from tourism . The charge for the permit should reflect the impact . This will reduce the amount of people visiting and give the the land time to heal
These aren't graves. These are stones that were left at the boundary stone by members of the funeral party on the way to the graveyard in the next parish.
The Devil's Pulpit was commercialised by Outlander, and this brought a load of louts in football tops and see you Jimmy bunnets. 🙄 Or visitors saying how beautiful Scatland is. 🙄 This is breathtaking. ❤
really fucks me off when people go there then tell other people they shouldn't come and try keep it a secret....like its ok for you to go there but nobody else can. You going there is contributing the the environmental problem so everyone can get off their fucking high horse.
Having lived in one of the cottages in Kinloch Rannoch prior to the hotel fire I have to say the village has a warm place in my heart. I would move back there in a second. Not many people mention the old listening station on the left side of the loch looking up towards Rannoch Moor. Still there today although more home to creepy crawlies than anything else. To think two men lived there at a time in the so called cold war era. Having been down last year it had been a delight for my children looking down from Craig Varr on the RAF jets low flying up the Loch
The 'Fairy Pools' thing is a tourist construct that came about accidentally - it didn't exist before social media, it's a river running out of a glen.....The one good thing is that Minginish community have monetised it for the benefit of the area.
My wife and I didn't get to the pools back in 2018 when we visited, and I'm glad we didn't after seeing this video. However, 180,000 cars x 5 quid each = 900,000 quid. That would build a decent boardwalk for the visitors to keep to and help protect the area.
What a bunch of elitist hypocritical snobs! Instead of being grateful you had the opportunity to go there as a "tourist", you complain about tourism. So sorry you can't have the world all to yourselves.
We are going to Scotland in mid April 24 and this is the EXACT path that we want to take to Skye. The ferry started to be the only reason to go that way but videos like yours have opened my eyes to so many other things. Thank you so much for posting it.
Last time I went to Skye (September 2018) I made a point of avoiding this hell-hole. Instead I hiked up to the far more impressive falls below Sron a' Ghrobain, to the west of Sligachan. Places like the Fairy Pools, or rather what they've become, call to mind phrases like 'the lumpen proletariat'.
Recently discovered that my dad's line goes back to the MacDougalls in Perthshire in the 16 & 1700s. Altho the MacDougalls did not officially join in in the uprising, the chieftains brother brought 200 MacDougalls on to the moor that day. Sadly, part of the Atholl Brigade on the right. I've walked around the battlefield more than once with my dad. Still see him turning around to me & saying "This is the saddest place in the world".
Thank you for covering this area. My Mac Coll were part of clan Mac Donald. John Mac Donald was a 3rd cousin to my 4x great grandfather whose line immigrated to America.
Bernera barracks were just one in a series of British Army bases stretching across Scotland by occupying forces opposed to the Stuart claim to the throne. I believe that the last English commander of Bernera, is buried in the local churchyard
Toilets, coffee shop, larger car park. goodbye to nature. Your arguments are very admirable but I'm afraid you are wasting your breath and now with your fine video that is sure to add to the increasing visitors, sorry. Glad that you are keeping the other falls secret though.
I have visited the battlefield many times, and have always felt the spirits of my MacLachlan ancestors who fought and died there. And so has my wife, a Fraser.
Allt eas Coire a Mhadaidh. Dunno when it's name changed to Fairy Pools but we used to go there 25/30 years ago as teenagers and there would be no tourists, just boisterous local kids having a swim and a laugh.
Yep... there's no Fairy folklore associated with this waterfall that I'm aware of. Not sure where the fox / Mhadaidh connection comes from in the name either. Can you shed light on that?
@@SecretscotlandTours My Granny is 95 and grew up 6 miles from there. She says the Mhadaidh could just as easily mean a wolf or a hound. Some tour guides make mention of a fairy or a selkie swimming in the pools but Granny says that's news to her. What's more interesting is the story of Coire na Creic that the whole place sits in.
Your Granny sounds like a great source of information. I'm sure she could teach me a lot and I'd love to hear her stories. Make sure you take notes. I lost my parents last year and really regret that I didn't take time to write down the details of their stories.
Thank you! We visited Eas Fors waterfall Perhaps the most well known of all the Isle of Mull waterfalls is Eas Fors. Located on the west coast of Mull, not far from the famed Isle of Mull scenery of Laggan Bay, these falls are easily accessible from the road. Excellent!
Did you find the way to the bottom of the falls. It's not signposted and it is a bit hard to explain the way to find it but we tried to explain it in our travel guides.
We first visited Skye back 16 yrs ago and walked the circuit of which the fairy pool section is only a 3rd of the walk, it was a grey windy and bleak day but a beautiful area and not a soul to see. Then RU-vid and the NC500 combined with enthusiastic amateur video producers to generate 100s of adverts for Scottish tourism. We drove passed the fairy pools on our way to Glen Brittle in feb 2020 and it was still busy then. There are some amazing pools elsewhere on Skye we’ve swam in but like yourself I’m not saying where, thank goodness most people still don’t attempt the Cuillins, I can’t imagine being in a queue up to the top of Sgur Nan Gillian but it could happen. We’re going again in 3weeks for some wild weather walking up the Red Cuillins maybe catch some snow on the tops and visit some beaches.
