Sixteen selected prints based on nine days walk along the coastline of the historic county of Caithness, Scotland. This section includes Dunnet Head, John o’ Groats, Whaligoe Steps, Wick and a profusion of castles along the East Coast. The walk took place in Summer 2019. […]
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Day 326: Borgue to Lothmore – Badbea Clearance Village
Date of walk: 12/8/2019 Badbea is a former clearance village settled in the 18th and 19th centuries by families evicted from their homes when the straths (broad valleys) of Langwell, Ousdale and Berriedale were cleared to establish sheep farms. Ousdale is where landowner Sir John […]

Day 325: Whaligoe to Borgue – Steps in the morning, bridge in the evening
Date of walk: 11/8/2019

Day 324: Wick to Whaligoe – Herring, Trinkie & The Sinclair Mausoleum
Date of walk: 10/8/2019

Day 323: Freswick to Wick – Castles, Brochs and Anti-tank Blocks
Date of walk: 9/8/2019

Day 322: John o’Groats to Freswick – The Stacks of Duncansby
Date of walk: 8/8/2019 After turning the corner at Duncansby head, one of the noticeable differences in heading south is that as I’m walking into the sun, the landscape ahead tends to be silhouetted, so best pictures require looking behind, which means I’m often missing […]

Day 321: Ham to John o’ Groats – The North East Fingerpost
Date of walk: 7/8/2019 In contrast to the drama of Dunnet Head, John o’ Groats consists anticlimactically of tourist shops and a noisy campsite despite the famous name and geographical significance. So after a quick photo by the fingerpost, I camp at the ness of […]

Day 320: Dunnet to Ham – Dunnet Head, The Most Northerly Point.
Date of walk: 6/8/2019

Day 319: Thurso to Dunnet – Thunderous Skies
Date of walk: 5/8/2019 At Murkle bay, I’m taken by surprise as a clap of thunder booms overhead while I’m in the middle of an exposed beach. I run with my pack to a ruined building a few hundred metres away, climbing in through the […]

Day 318: Geodh’ Eisgiadh to Thurso – like a city on an unknown planet.
Date of walk: 4/8/2019