Sheep Grazing On Skye

On the way back from Dunvegan Castle, we stopped to take a picture of these sheep grazing in the foreground of the lush green coves of Northern Skye. One thing that surprised us about this very northerly place was the lushness of the vegetation. At Dunvegan Castle, there was a garden where many ferns, elephant ears, and other tropical-looking plants grew in exuberant abundance, surrounded by waterfalls and flowers. We theorized that it was the rain that makes their cultivation possible, a kind of rainforest climate transplanted from the equator to the Inner Hebrides.