August, 1995 Jonathan Brind		INDEX
After the restaurant, when it was starting to get dark we got back into the car and drove to a nature reserve on the Isle of Skye where there is a place where you are supposed to be able to see otters. To get to this you have to drive down a windy single track road across completely desolate moor side and hilltops. We saw something move, which might have been a otter but it was quite a long way away. Then when it was dark we got back into the car and began driving back down the road towards the ferry. But this time every few yards the children spotted a toad on the road! There were hundreds of them and something was attracting them onto the road. Perhaps they catch moths or flies which fly above the road? Anyway we had to drive very slowly along the road in order to spot the toads and drive round them. Sometimes there were two in the road at the same time and it was impossible to steer the car past both. So we stopped the car and the kids jumped out to lift them to safety on the roadside. We eventually got back to the ferry in the pitch dark. It was quite a sight coming across the water from the Kyle of Lochalsh, with all its lights ablaze.	Click for next picture
August 1995		INDEX Jonathan Brind