Drove at 7.30 back to Duncansby Head. After brekkie, walked out to the headland. Magnificent cliff scenery, dry but windy and a few birds still nesting on the cliff tops. Looked at the three Duncansby Stacks (Scotland's answer to The Twelve Apostles off the Victoria coast.)
Then back to the Boomer and drove on to Dunnet Head, the TRUE northern tip of mainland Scotland
. Looked across at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands, a naval harbour in WW 2.
Drove across the northern coast of Scotland westwards, with scenery becoming more rugged and mountainous. Cannot believe our luck with sunny, dry and slightly windy weather after numerous predictions of rain.
Drove round the edge of Loch Eriboll, one of the deepest lochs in Scotland at 60 metres depth. On to Smoo Cave. A huge sea cave that you can enter from a path and looked at the first cave, 30 metres deep and 15 metres wide. The second cave, seen from a bridge, is full of water and in summer you can take a boat ride into the third cave, deep inside the hill, created by a river flowing underground.
Finally camped at a site at Sango Sands, overlooking the beach, free at this time of year.
(and no significant wind). Haggis for dinner, with vegies but no tatties!
Most northerly tip of mainland Scotland
Sunday, November 02, 2014
Durness, Scotland, United Kingdom
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