Fairy Bridge Traditional Geocache
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I often visit this area as I have relatives in nearby Stein. There's plenty to visit in this small area. Halistra Pottery, Shilasdair Yarns, Sky Skyns tannery, Brae Fasach art and pottery (I've stayed with Ian a few times).
Down by the harbour there's the Stein Inn and the fantastic Lochbay seafood restaurant.
Why not search out my other cache near Trumpan church at the end of the road? You won't be disappointed by the views!
At the foot of the Waternish peninsula, where the B886 branches north from the A850, lies an abandoned bridge beside the modern road. This is the Fairy Bridge, and like many places on Skye, the Fairy Bridge has a story associated with it; in this case the bridge is said to mark the place where a fairy wife of a MacLeod chief said her final farewell to her husband before she left him to live amongst her own people.
The story goes that the chief of the MacLeod’s wanted to marry a Fairie princess. The king of the Faeries, Oberon, agreed to the match, but only on condition that after a year and a day had lapsed the princess must return to her own people. So the marriage took place, and a son was born of the union, but after the allotted year and day was over, the princess had no choice but to return to the Land of Faerie.
She parted from her husband and child at the Fairy Bridge. But the story does not end there; one day the infant son began to cry, as children do. The Faerie princess, upon hearing her child’s cry, returned from the Land of Faerie and comforted him, wrapping the child in a Faerie shawl. This shawl was preserved; it is the famed Faerie Flag of the MacLeod clan, which can be seen today at Dunvegan Castle.
The cache itself is some way from the bridge hdden under stones near a large drain pipe.
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