Yes, I know it's The Sun, but everyone is sick to death
of this shit and the road accidents.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/travel/13550579/total-chaos-scots-beauty-spot-glenbrittle-skye/
Annoyed island residents took to Facebook and sparked fury over how they were becoming dangerously overcrowded by tourist vehicles. Some blamed the "social media effect" of over-edited photographs of the fairy pools going "viral" and drawing too many people to the area at one time.
One wrote: "Fairy pools were never called that until a local photographer took a photo, and edited it to high heaven with Photoshop before posting it to Social Media about 14 years ago, and he regretted it ever since."
Another said: "Never been there and have no desire to go.
"Folk know the issues, but they still insist on going.
"Those who promote this place (wild swimmers, travel bloggers, photographers) need to take a long hard look at themselves. "There are plenty of other places to go, but folk need to be fed information rather than going out and exploring themselves" A third commented: "The Highlands and Islands have never had to deal with this amount of over exposure or over tourism of course the infrastructure won't handle it.
"There needs to be some sort of legislation over social media trends encouraging folk to these places it's depressing seeing all these places getting destroyed for profit." A fourth said: "This road was probably built for the use of horses and carts and not for the misuse of bus sized motor homes.
"Soon, if nothing is done, most of the single track roads in the north and west will end up in a similar state . "Seems the local people and their right to use these roads for their every day lives is being sacrificed for the selfish interests of the NC500 profiteers and the endless convoys of large motor homes."
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