This was my last morning on Skye. My first venture up the mountain a couple of days before had not been as successful as I would have liked. I ended up on the wrong side of the Old Man and didn’t have enough time to move before the sun rose. It takes 30-40minutes to hike up and is pretty steep at parts. There was a lot of cursing when I was almost back to the bottom and realized my jacket had fallen off my backpack somewhere on the mountain so up I went again!
On this day, when I woke up at 3.15 the sky didn’t look great at all but I dragged myself out. At the bottom of the mountain at 3.45am I met a guy, Steve, who had slept in his car overnight and he convinced me that it may be worth venturing up despite the cloudy weather. I’m very glad I did as the dark clouds began to clear around sunrise and colored pink. There were five of us up on the mountain to witness a beautiful sunrise. This shot is just moments before sunrise when the clouds were still colored. A great morning!