I am on Skye at the moment with some clients and the weather wasn't conducive to what we planned to do. So I took them to the Coral Beaches and Dun Fiadhairt broch.
The walk Highlands description of this walk to the Broch suggested a wander to the southern edge of the outcrop to see seals. This seemed like a no brainer with clients so off we went.
We stayed on the higher ground, and we weren't even particularly close to the edge. We spotted a couple of seals bobbing around and watched them with binoculars for a while.
Then a noisy motor boat came into the area with a couple of families and, I assume, someone from the estate driving the boat. He started shouting at us, telling us we had no right to be there as it was a SSSI etc and we were stopping the seals from pulling out onto the rocks.
I didn't leave, I just pointed to where the seals were and shrugged as I was pretty sure we were absolutely entitled to be there and I certainly wasn't going to try to hold any kind of conversation from that distance. He said he was going to call the police, which I also just shrugged about.
I looked it up when I got back, the area is a Special Area of Conservation. The map for the area clearly shows the water and tidal areas to be covered by this and not the land.
Am I correct in saying that he was talking out of his backside about us not being allowed there? He was certainly doing more to disturb the seals than we were!!
This is the link to the SAC site for it https://sac.jncc.gov.uk/site/UK0030230