The wind sometimes headed us, but we saw more of the coast until, passing Applecross, we reached the Island of Scalpa.  We then had a fair wind past Loch Carron to Loch Alsh, which lies between one end of Skye and the mainland.  Steering due east, we ran through it, and then again had to haul up to pass through the narrow channel which separates the south end of Skye from the main.