Date of walk: 13/8/19
All posts tagged: Coast
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 324: Wick to Whaligoe – Herring, Trinkie & The Sinclair Mausoleum
Date of walk: 10/8/2019
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 320: Dunnet to Ham – Dunnet Head, The Most Northerly Point.
Date of walk: 6/8/2019
Day 315: Bettyhill to Brawl – Lusitania and Borve Castle
Date of walk: 21/6/19
Day 314: Achininver to Bettyhill – Tongue & Chandelier
Date of walk: 20//6/19
Day 313: Inverhope to Achininver – The Mhoine Peninsula
Date of walk: 19/6/19 Midnight wandering.
Day 312: Durness to Inverhope – around Loch Eriboll
Date of walk: 18/6/19
Day 311: Durness to Durness via Faraid Head – Sango Bay Chain Home Radar Station
Date of walk: 17/6/19 At Durness hostel, I’m trying to sleep in a twelve-bed dorm room; a motorbike club takes all the other eleven bunks. I’m pretty sure I’m witnessing a world record for the volume of synchronised farting, burping and snoring. The following day […]
