Sunday Times Where Was I? Holiday Competition

Quite tricky this week, near as I can figure it, the most likely answers are:

Q1. Waternish Point Lighthouse

Q2. MacLeod's Table North (Healabhal Mhor)

(NB for question one, this is called Vaternish point in some texts, so there may be several ways of spelling the name of the lighthouse)

The initial clues place us near the tip of Trotternish peninsula, on Skye, at Kilmuir
graveyard, where a good ol' Jacobite rebel (gawrd bless 'er, the Eastender Himself has
been declared attainted Jacobite due to the late unpleasantness c 1715 when one of his
ancestors took a pot shot at the Hanoverian's dragoons) Flora MacDonald (b 1722) is
allegedly buried.

Flora MacDonald is recorded as being the woman who helped Bonnie Prince
Charlie escape from the forces of the crown, disguised as an Irish maid, Betty Burke. For
her trouble she was thrown into jail but was released under the act of indemnity c1747.

The author has upped his game this week, because there appear to be two places called
Kilmuir on the island, one at the tip of the Trotternish and one near Dunvegan, (if you
just do a quick search and pick the one at Dunvegan, you will get the location wrong and
the directions won't match up).

Following the road south from Kilmuir graveyard, with the sea in sight to your west, you
come to the southern extremity of Loch Snizort Beag. Traveling northwest from there takes
you along the western shore of Loch Snizort Beag and the road then turns west. The first
lighthouse from the clues given, is most likely to be Waternish point lighthouse, there
is a junction off the A850, where a road goes north into the Waternish peninsula, to a place called Trumpan. At this point you have to leave the car and walk a trail (which looks to be approx three to four miles to the tip of the peninsula) to reach a lighthouse called Waternish point lighthouse. It is roughly nine miles west south west of Flora MacDonald's grave at Kilmuir.

Heading south, then west from the junction brings us to Dunvegan. Dunvegan Castle is the
seat of the the MacLeod clan, motto 'Hold Fast'. Going south then northwest out of
Dunvegan should bring you within sight, if you are looking to the south, of Macleod's tables, two flat
topped mountains. There is the northern one Healabhal Mhor (1538ft approx) and the
southern one Healabhal Bheag (1604 ft approx).

The Eastender Himself has climbed the northern one (and met a mad Icelander called Siggy and his missus, they were the only other people crazy enough to venture up there). The second lighthouse is most likely to be Neist point, it is in the right location and was built in 1909 (62ft in height).