Concrete Ferry slipway with rusty iron mooring ring,Sgurr na Coinnich, Kylerhea,Glenelg, Isle of Skye,highlands,Scotland,UK.

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For how long people have made the sea crossing over the Kylerhea Narrows, no-one knows for certain, but it is part of a route that is certainly ancient and of great historical significance. The stretch of water on which the ferry now travels is the shortest distance from the Isle of Skye to the mainland, a distance of only 3 cables, or 550 was the crossing that was used for many centuries by the cattle drovers who used to swim hundreds of their small black Highland cattle over here every season to begin their long trek south to the cattle fairs in the Lowlands. You can still see the stone ramp they used to disembark on the Glenelg side, although it is told that those caught by a fast ebbing tide would sometimes be swept round the point to the south to make their landfall on the shores of Glenelg Bay!

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Location: Concrete Ferry slipway with rusty iron mooring ring,Sgurr na Coinnich, Kylerhea,Glenelg,Isle of Skye
Photo credit: © Neil Dangerfield / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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