Sunrise over Cromarty Firth – Dingwall
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Scotland
John o’ Groats and Wick
We headed north today – all the way north.
John o’ Groats
John o’ Groats harbour
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We walked out along the coast, leaving the tourist area behind. There were even two caches along our route – the most northerly mainland caches.
Ness of Duncansby
Duncansby Head
John o’ Groats from Ness of Duncansby
Wick
We stopped here mainly to eat, but we also visited the “shortest street”
Ebenezer Place was built in 1883 and measures only 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) long. It has only one address: No 1.
It was also the location of our last geocache of this holiday.
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Inverness Castle and the River Ness
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The clouds and light today have been spectacular.
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Forest walking and geocaching
We drove to Glenurquhart Forest using the A833, rather than via Inverness, as the day was good enough to get the hood down on the MX-5 and it is a much more exciting drive.
Once there it was a great place to walk, have our lunch, brew some tea and we scored several caches as well.
We did drive back along Loch Ness.
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Tollie Red Kites – Knock Farril
We got out walking today and so we did not waste the good weather we stayed local.
We decided to use geocaching to plan the route so the first stop was Tollie Red Kites – where we did see Red Kites and a weasel.
Tollie Red Kites
a grainy photo of the weasel
We also drove out to Knock Farril – a site of an ancient hill fort.
The view from Knock Farril
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The weather was so good that we got the hood down on the MX-5.
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