{"id":3210,"date":"2016-10-04T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:00:54","slug":"day-6-scourie-to-durness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: Scourie to Durness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 6: Scourie to Durness\u00a0\u00a0 35 miles\u00a0\u00a0 Total\u00a0 286 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scourie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I enjoyed an early morning walk down to the jetty with the dogs, and discovered that we had a Wi-Fi signal from a router in the houses beside the road!\u00a0 I was able to post a Facebook update from here.\u00a0 The other joy was being watched by a robin down by the jetty.<\/p>\n

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Scourie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we arrived the day before we had spied a little sandy beach from the campsite.\u00a0 We followed a path towards it, but it was really too rough and wet, so we gave up.\u00a0 This morning we drove down to the beach as we were leaving Scourie in glorious sunshine.\u00a0 The dogs enjoyed the run on the sand;\u00a0 Mary enjoyed stalking her favourite shore birds, ringed plovers; and I enjoyed taking photographs.\u00a0 A lovely hour or so.<\/p>\n

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Scourie Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ringed plover, Scourie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scourie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it was off, still heading north towards Durness. With not a long drive before us we had plenty time to make a detour to Kinlochbervie and were surprised to see the size of the fish market and the signs of industrial style fishing here in such a remote area.\u00a0 We stopped for lunch in\u00a0the old School at Inshegra, \u00a0and I was delighted with the little burn and rowan tree beside where we parked.<\/p>\n

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Kinlochbervie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we approached the north coast the countryside changed quite a bit.\u00a0 We drove down a broad smooth valley with obvious signs of sheep farming.\u00a0 Every so often there would be an old tyre with a painted warning to watch out for lambs.\u00a0 Quite different to the craggy mountainous countryside we had encountered\u00a0much of the way from Inverness.<\/p>\n

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Sango Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sango Bay campsite was a joy – big and not at all claustrophobic.\u00a0 We found ourselves a cliff-top pitch and admired the sandy beach below, with beautiful blue sea;\u00a0 we could even make out two Orkney Isalnds on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Cliff top pitch, Sango Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then came the excitement as we spotted dolphins in the bay.\u00a0 They were too far away to photograph well, but it was a joy to watch them in the clear blue water.<\/p>\n

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Dolphin in Sango Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the evening we managed a walk on the sand, even though Poppy took off with a Collie and we found her waiting for us at the top of the cliff!<\/p>\n

In the night the rain came and the gales blew.\u00a0 I had left my trainers under the van;\u00a0 the sideways rain filled them with water.<\/p>\n

The wind blew even harder and the rain battered the van, and we shook and shook and shook.\u00a0 Quite frightening on the cliff top.<\/p>\n

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The are more pictures of our road trip along the NC 500 on my Flickr page.<\/p>\n

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