Loch More

The bridge over the River Thurso.













The Salmon leap at the weir on Loch More.














A natural salmon leap from the shallows to the deeper pool on the approach to Loch More.














Looking south across the Loch to the sentinels of Caithness, Morven, Maiden's pap and Scaraben.














The flow down the salmon leap.













The water flows powerfully over the edge of the weir.














The fisherman's cottage at Loch More.













Loch More is in the middle of nowhere, in the heart of the flow country, surrounded by a vast blanket of peat bog. There are no dwellings, factories, fast food restaurants, no farms or fences, just fecund soil and water, with occasional mountains rising in counterpoint to the dark lochans that speckle the landscape. Loch More is teeming with the salmon that swim up the river Thurso and leap the shallows and the slopes to their breeding grounds in the Loch.

Dunnet Head

The view south west towards Scaraben and Morven.














Loooking North to the island of Hoy and Scapa Flow.














Loooking South East towards Duncansby head and John o Groats.















The most northerly plein air bathtubs on the British mainland.














Across the Atlantic to the Orkney islands














Looking west to the cliffs of Dunnet head and the county of Sutherland in the distance.














Thumbs and fingers up!













Dunnet head is the most northerly point of mainland Britain, it is spectacular!

more skies

Caithness has the biggest skies we have seen, comparable to the deserts of the USA, but different because of the angle of the sunlight.