MUST-SEE CAVE IN SCOTLAND! Day Trip to Iona & Fingal's Cave 

As a Scot living in Scotland (on the NC 500) I love watching visitors' travel vlogs. It's fascinating to see and hear people's impressions of my country. Things I take for granted are often things others have never seen or even heard of before. For example, your reaction to the various livestock you encountered made me smile. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit. As others have said, come back and do the far north and north west. It is beyond spectacular there. Thanks for showcasing my country so well.

I loved your last line there, about 'your bucket-list'. So glad you enjoyed Bonnie Scotland.

There are ring around bull’s noses so it can be used to control the bull. It is in their nose cause the more they move if you grab the ring the more it hurts so they can be controlled.

the colors are perfectly contrasted on the boat ride over

I'm heading to Scotland shortly and just found your vlog! If you have any more tips on places to see, let me know! Just got my cuppa tea and I'm about to dive into this video. Also - i think you better stay away from that bull. Doesn't it mean they're aggressive and the ring is used to move the cattle around? :D xx

wow those cows look like good people :D

He doesn't look happy. I guess not all cats love Wes.

I'm a scottish woman who is 45 and I am still exploring my beautiful stunningly gorgeous homeland

Oh you guuuys! This video was incredible! You captured the dreaminess, the adventure and unexpected trills of travelling. I really enjoyed watching this :) Definitely got me adding Scotland to the list!

I loved that cat 😂

Kudos for dealing with the temperamental Scottish weather, haha. As a Scot and a history student, I find it really admirable that you've really taken your time to find out a little bit about the places you're seeing. Our geography, history and folklore is some of the most beautiful and interesting the world has to offer. A little fun fact about the Giants Causeway! Legend has it that two giants in Ireland and Scotland had a little bit of a rivalry going on and the Irish giant built a bridge between the two nations, and went to challenge him to a dual. Scottish giant didn't anticipate how big he'd be and ran back to the Isla of Staffa, tearing away bits of the bridge to make sure the Irish giant couldn't follow him. Also! Scotland has 790 islands, all of which are absolutely beautiful. If you ever get the chance to come back, there's plenty more to visit. :)

Wow. Scotland is beautiful. Loving this series! Great work you too! Fel I love the narration - you are natural story teller.

I took the Fingal's cave boat about 25 years ago in similar weather, the boat played Mendelssohn's Hebridean Symphony as we approached Fingal's cave ( it was written about it) . It was such a moving moment I will remember it forever. I was in tears, so moved by the grandeur and ancientness of it all. We hired a wee cottage for a few years in Mull for holidays and got to know the islands well. Some folk used to say...' why do you holiday in Scotland? Isn't that a staycation?' and i always felt sad about what they were missing in their own country. thank you for the memories. xx

I live on the Isle of Mull down in fionnphort and have a farm, the rings in there nose are to attach a rope too

I laughed so hard at that grumpy cat taking a swipe LMAO

Another brilliant video. You both come across so well and we love your editing style Wes. Everything looked so moody. 😍

I like the fact that you are so up for it, and so enthusiastic- great attitude! Believe it or not, the weather here is often quite kind, and relatively warm! BTW - Single track roads, and Passing Places... Courtesy and thoughtfulness is important.

Oooh , that lovely Scottish fresh air!!😬 Beautiful rock formations!!! So much to see in Scotland. Glad you enjoyed🙂

omg LOL your reaction to that cat his hilarious. And it's so amazing to watch someone be so excited about something, as Felicia was about the cave!

1.35 do not fk around with wee agnes Scottish cat lol Good video

Why do ranchers wear button fly jeans? Shep run when they hear zippers.... :-) I believe the nose ring in animals is there for control. It's sensitive and the slightest pull (via rope) will control the animal...or a human if he has the nose ring...

Great blog and channel guys! Just found you while researching Kazbegi where we're headed next week. Love how you didn't even seem bothered by the crappy weather on this trip and kept the mood up. We were camping for a week on Mull last February, so I know that aint always easy ; )

As Scot, thanks for visiting and loved that you enjoyed the visit.I couldn't believe the B&B clip as I haven't seen that stuff since the 70's.My job used to involve going to the islands and one of my colleagues who stayed in a B&B woke up to the owner bringing a cup of tea in to his bedroom but that was back in the 90's .... service levels have dropped of since then.Great video

Interesting you say that iona wasn't like ireland.We have many small islands like that,however iona is where the two countries meet st.columba was from donegal and many irish high kings are burried there.The book of kells was written there by irish monks and brought back to kells co meath and then to trinity dublin.You may have seen it in dublin

Fantastic! Really enjoyed your two films of Scotland :) If you can come back in the future you must include the" Isle of Skye" and maybe try and complete the NC 500(north coast 500) And you will see how stunning Scotland really is :) Take care, peter.

Had a hard day at the office today,watching my favorite travelers made it all better,thanks Fel and Wes,needed that👌

Nice to see you two in Europe again. A lovely couple you are indeed.Great vid!

Love thst you totally embraced the weather. Come to Scotland in Autumn and thats what you're getting. The bonus though its absolutely stunning. The Greens, Reds, Browns and Yellows. Makes it all so worthwhile. 😊😊

Mendelssohn wrote his symphony based on his visit to Staffa - Finglal's Cave Overture

You're such great and optimistic couple 😘 Wish you all the best and waiting for new videos from you guys 👍👍👍

'Some of the islands and maybe some of the small towns they have, like, one lane roads'. No pretty man. They're EVERYWHERE! Yes we have motor / free ways, large multi lane roads. We also have the tiny little one lane roads everywhere. Even little ones in our largest cities. Love your videos about Scotland. Sorry about the weather, you were great about it!

I was in Iona in 1978 without a good camera! How delightful to see your heat-felt and friendly video. (I know how long it takes to edit these - THANKYOU!)

"This is my new little friend.... ohh he don't look happy.... MEOWWWWW couple of claws popped out there 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Me & my Husband will be there this time next week, I'm so excited as we've never been to Mull. We visit family in Killin as much as possible and have travelled as far as Glenfinnan to see the famous curved viaduct. Around every bend in the road leads to more beauty than I ever could imagine, and I've only seen 1% of Scotland. I would move to the west coast in a heartbeat! It's the most beautiful place in the world (imo) and I live in the peak district of England, that is a beautiful place to live.

How cool not to keep being asked to like and subscribe. Your video does everything to get the viewer to do that anyway. A fabulous couple although Wes, you are punching lol. I am off to the West Highlands a week today on the BEAST. During the ride, I plan to cover Isle of Skye, Eilean Donan Castle, and the Applecross Pass. Not sure that I will have time on this occasion to do Fingals Cave but I think it will have to happen next time. I will be checking out more of your video's. Thank You

Your films popped up on my recommendations glad they did. I am a Scot who has travelled and lived in many places but my homeland always pulled me back. The wanderlust is still there though. Iona is one of the most sacred religious places in Britain due to fact that St Columba made it his home and from there spread Christianity to Scotland converting many Kings from all over the land. The Scot's were originally a small Irish tribe that settled on the west coast of the country. By conquest and clever marriage they eventually became the most powerful tribe and the whole country is named after them. Many ancient Kings from Scotland and Ireland are buried on Iona though the Vikings did love to plunder it. Your film showed the Kelpies of Falkirk and I now live around a mile from them.

Fantastic vids of your trip to my country. Your enthusiasm and positivity shines through - despite our weather! Haste ye back. 😀

Scotland is amazing the further up north you go the more you find

Have you never heard of the expression 'the black sheep of the family'?

Did you get to stop and see Inveraray castle where im from ??? The west coast of Argyll is stunning.As we like to say;West is best.Haste ye back.

wonderful recording! it reminds me the time spending right beside the Columbus Church sea beach. thank you . by the way, We meet a lovely cat right at the beach where you met the cat in the video .

The bull with the ring is a punk, and was in the original line - up of the Sex Pistols, but retired to Iona after a drumming accident. Glad you enjoyed the land of my birth

The rings through a bull's nose are used to control the animals when required. They do look scary but they tend to be very docile, most of the time. Oh and the cat - it was partly your indecisiveness that provoked the reaction, just clap the cat and it may have been fine. Saying that, it is a tortoise shell (=temperamental) so it may still have had a go at you just for the fun.

When farmers need to move their bulls from one place to another, they need a way of getting a powerful and potentially dangerous animal to cooperate. After all, if a bull pushes the farmer against a solid object like a fence or wall, the farmer will be crushed to death and horns can be dangerous as well. A bull can be fairly easily be led in the desired direction by pulling a rope attached to the ring in its nose, because its nose is sensitive enough to encourage the bull's cooperation.

Wonderful last line 👌 if you come back, see the Isle of Lewis/Harris and Isle of Skye 😍

The nose ring is for control. It's easier to control the animal when moving him around to other pastures for example. You put an rope in to the ring and he will follow you like a puppy. Have to take to consideration that it is a massive animal with tremendous power. You take care.

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I love Iona - I camped in the dunes and it rained for half the week - then the sun came out and it was incredible x

Thank you for visiting our country. Also for being very complimentary about it. Haste ye back.

love that cat!!!

So bulls are very strong and unpredictable ring in the nose is where you attach chain to control them (make them go where you want them to go not other way around 😁) ot

100 people a day try to pet that cat, try being the cat putting up with that every day of your life, you're bound to get a bit pissed off with it.

Great video. I went on a National Trust for Scotland cruise as a 14 year old ( thanks Dad ! ) and on day two we woke up off Iona , and visited it that morning. In the afternoon we sailed round Staffa and saw the cave. That was nearly 50 years ago but you can't forget that sort of experience.

WOW...Incredible beautiful!!!! Looking forward to vising Scotland ;-)

If I was you I wouldnt come back.... Because ill be trying to steal your wife 😂 Seriously though shes lovely

I made that trip in summer, a few years back. The waves were pretty similar, to be fair.

how to connected with him who guided from the fingal's cave

If you go north to Ullapool you'll see wild feral cats begging for fish chips outside the chippy.

Thanks for sharing. Glad you had a good time.

You guys are already the best video makers :)

The rings is to tie a lead rope on to walk them like a dog leash

U should visit lochness

I love your videos. All the very best as you travel in Scotland. I've never been but wish to come there in the near future. Probably Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen. I love Aberdeen's grey architecture :)

Very nice video, thankyou. I've tried twice to get to Staffa and each time the boat had to turn back. Third time lucky, maybe. One interesting thing that connects Tobermory and Tobermorey in Canada is that they are both towns where diving is a popular sport ( I have dived both!) There is also a Spanish galleon from the Armada sunk in the mud in Tobermory harbour, supposedly with up to £6 million of gold on it. Numerous attempts have been made to salvage it, but the mud is too thick. Tobermory is also famous for being the film location of the children's BBC tv series Balamorey

*The ring in the nose keeps them from "rooting out"* - digging in the ground to get under the fence or eating the roots - aka - turnips and potatoes. 😉 Beautiful animals ❤ Beth - aka "Mary Beth" Tennessee, USA Basque-Irish American 🍀 Lineage - Counties Kerry and Cork, Ireland Excellent Video Production - well done!

Cat :D

1:28 secs. Best bit ha ha.

yous are brilliant glad you enjoyed my home country I'm from Glasgow yous are welcome back anytime 😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Another enjoyable video. I like the bit where the cat scratched you.That was funny.

The rings in the nose are there so when the farmer is moving them, they can put a rope through the ring so they can be controlled. The nose is sensitive, and the bulls will normally go where they are taken.

You made me smile. Thank you.

You didn't know Scotland had islands.?, lol...Yeah there are only about 800..👍

the bull nose ring is used to tame these animals. The circle tightens on the nose, which is very nerved in the bulls, so that it can later be attached to it with a cane, which is about a meter and a half long, and lead an animal. The bull, wanting to avoid the pain that causes the pressure, ceases to jerk his head and becomes calmer.

Im Scottish and the beauty of my country never ceases to amaze me, it fills my heart with great pride, if your ever back in Scotland visit Glencoe the Scenery is stunning, Love and best wishes from Bonnie Scotland xx

That looks absolutely amazing! Also, while I do love small towns, I don't agree with the idea that the cities we have now are "too big". Without a concentration of resources and people, we wouldn't have some of the great medical and technological advancements we have today. That podcast wouldn't exist without the hyper-specialization of workers that gave them the technology and platform. I think everyone is different and if you want to live in a small town, that's great and the world does need small towns. But, I don't think the world would be the same without big cities. Speaking of which, when are y'all reaching Toronto?

Another very cool video guys. Well made and excellently commentated. You know, you've been to places that most of the UK population hasn't been to so kudos for getting out and about off the beaten track. Puffins are cool looking birds but if you want to see them then August is too late, they will all have gone back out to sea by then; don't leave it any later than mid-late June to be sure of catching up with them (They are also in Wales so if you come back to the UK and go somewhere else, there's a place - North Wales and Snowdonia are both wondereful). You're Canadian? - I love Canada!

And that's why we are moving to Stratford. Stunning landscapes. Beautiful far away places. Lovely. (although very wet for you with your soakers).

Theres a piece of classical music called Fingals Cave I'm not sure who the composer was (must Google it)

I love the landscape, could live there, but the wind would drive me batty.

"It's not normally like this...", When I was on that bloody boat I nearly went flying off.

So beautiful, I have that cave in my Pinterest bucket list😊 Glad you got to experience it and had this truely awesome surprise...as adults we don't get many of them where everything is new and exciting.

I love that you loved Scotland. You're both welcome back any time! 😊

Good you visited in October because you get a feeling what it is like in January.

Very good but get some proper winter cloths then you won't look so frozen all the time! it is Scotland after all. Next time come see us on the Kintyre peninsula.

Great video, i'm from Scotland and have been myself

You should try eating a lorne sausage! That would be funny!

It's nice to see the country through other peoples eyes, it makes you appreciate it more. The ring in the bulls nose is for a rope, so that you can move it (lead it by the nose).

Also, Fel you are delightful and a pleasure to watch.

are you guys coming to Edinburgh anytime soon? :)

Scotland feels like different planet. So much contrasting to what I'm used to.

Great video! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

You can lead a bull by the ring easier because its a tender part of the bull.

The ring in the bull's nose is to control it, especially when taken to shows.

I believe the ring in the bull's nose is so you can attach a line to it and lead him where you want him to go.

On a good day it can look like the Caribbean.

Felix Mendelssohn was so impressed after visiting Fingal's cave in 1829 that it inspired him to write the Hebrides Overture.

Awesome blog, the music, storytelling and cool scenery made it feel so peaceful. Keep up the great work!

Hello again team,Did you know that D Trump mother😎👵 is from that neck of the woods you are visiting but don't let that bit of information spoil your visit to the Western Ilse of Scotland, the reason for all the rain and mist is the Gulf Steam🌊 that day you went on the boat to the cave the weather and the sea looked quite calm, you want to come back when it's really angry🚢,getting back to your trip,yes she is totally correct in what she said about big city's full of lots of people, life is a lot nicer and better in smaller communities, that is the basis of the clan system and close knit communities, the same system applies to the native American's the red Indians ,they are small units but very self sufficient who strive for the common good of the unit or tribe / clans,.If you get a chance and want to learn more about that part of Scotland,get books and read about the Highland and Islands Clearances, where people from these small communities where forced of there land at the point of English guns and bayonets,that is the reason you find lots of people in Canada and the USA and very much so New Zealand of Scottish decent ,New Zealand is Scotland in the Southern Hemisphere because of great number Scotts,these people were hardworking people who get on well with the indigenous peoples of the country they went to,because they understood how hard things could be for the indigenous population who lived their before they arrived,the same goes for the Irish people left there native Ireland and settled in the USA,one of my kinsman who was born in the same place as myself went to the USA and became the father USA conservation John Muir, an other well know Scott is Andrew Carnage, Henry Ford was of Irish decent ,they all came from small rural communities they came to North America and helped lay the foundation stones of the USA and Canada, a name gives away where they were from Nova Scotia the province in Canada says it all ,it means New Scotland, it was very perceptive of the young lady to mention about small communities and how they thrive better than large communities in the fulfilment and quality of there lives, she comes across as a very bright and sensitive and caring person. l look forward to chatting again with you both, take care and God bless, and have a good 🎄🎅🎇🎉🎊 Christmas and a better New Year 2019🌂☔🐂🌊🚢🍷🍷🎆🎆. The reason for the ring in the🐂 nose is that they can be led and controlled easier if become a bit bostrious when being move.🐂🐾🐾💩💩😣.That is the reason that Scotsmen wear a kilt,so that they can run faster than Englishman and a tourist being chased by a Scottish bull with there trousers down.

You don't know what's on the bucket list until you actually go. Soooo true . Any traveling people know the best things are the ones you never knew about until you turned a corner a thought WOW look at this . I've been traveling Europe these last 4 years but go home to Scotland for Christmas in 15 days . Can't wait for fish and chips , red , black , white and Haggis puddings , a cold pint of the big red T and some of mums Christmas food . Some morning rolls and a two week Christmas / new year party . Then off on the travels again. Love these Scotland vids to cheer me up about coming home for a visit .

great video, just back from staffa and lunga myself! saw tonnes of puffins was amazing!!!

I love this video! Now I want to go there too! :D