ISLAND MAGIC

rom their self-built home on the Isle of Skye’s Waternish Peninsula, Murray and Lorna Gray have front-row seats to some of the island’s most spectacular natural wonders. On a still summer morning, the glassy waters of Loch Bay beneath them are disturbed only by the occasional leaping dolphin or porpoise as it goes along its way. Other days, the banks are alive with resident otters and, in winter, herds of deer visit the garden while the dark skies above serve as an ever-changing canvas for northern lights and vast, majestic sunsets. Here, both golden and white-tailed eagles are free to soar, fish and make their nests in the adjacent cliffs, which face out