Sunday
12th June
After
a good cooked breakfast (sliced sausage, black pudding and egg) we
left Durness for Dunnet Bay. It was a better day, still some cloud
but with some sunny intervals. We stopped for a coffee beside Loch
Eribol before continuing on to Tongue. Another stop for photos of the
Tongue causeway and to take Button for a walk.
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| Loch Eribol |
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| The causeway at Tongue |
We
stopped for lunch at the Borgie Forest. We found an interesting
little forest walk where the trees had been planted to illustrate the
“Tree Ogham”, an ancient alphabet; the letters formed from the
initial letters of the trees names in Gaelic. A spiral footpath took
us to the centre of the planting and there we met a woman whose
grandchildren had helped plant the trees.
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| Stone explaining the "Tree Ogham" alphabet |
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| Especially for my graddaughter, Luis, the letter L, Rowan! |
We
drove on via Thurso arriving at Dunnet Bay Caravan Club site at about
4pm. It was cloudy and breezy and the only pitches available were by
the main road. We took Button for her evening walk on the beach. She
loved it. We had dinner that evening in the Northern Sands Hotel. The
food was fine and good value but the service was rather chaotic.
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| Dounreay Nuclear Power station, now being decommissioned |
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| Lyn and Button on Dunnet Bay beach |
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| Button after chasing the ball umpteen times |
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