My wife and I, have made 2 trips over, the first being our wedding and honeymoon, and the other our 4 year aniversey (2007). We went with the first 2 weeks of October. The ferries are still running to the islands on a regular basis, no midges, no crowds, 98% of attarctions are still open, and the weather is fantastic. On both of our trips we only had 1 day each time of "bad" weather, other than that it was nice cool weather, and very sunny.

Frank