Edinbane is a little village on the shores of Loch Greshornish and it is now by passed by the main road. It has a rather nice pottery.
The following photos are winter scenes, and the first two may (or may not) be disturbing. In 1989 an oil company came to Edinbane and set up an exploration rig by the Dunvegan Road. The came, they explored and they went away again, holding their cards very close to their chest and saying nothing.
If oil were to be found in commercially exploitable quantities on Skye, it would mean big changes. There is a school of thought which states that oil will be found off the west coast of the UK in the same way that it was found in the North Sea.
Certainly, there are already sizeable gas fields off the English Lancashire coast and oil was extracted on a small scale near the Lancashire town of Formby in the 1960s. Nothing much has happened on Skye since the oil men left, so we will have to wait and see.........
We like the Lodge Hotel at Edinbane (not to be confused with the Edinbane Hotel where we have never stayed.) It is not the biggest hotel on Skye but it is a well run, historic and agreeable hotel, a 16th century former hunting lodge, with good food at reasonable prices.
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