Quickish road to Inverness, north on the A9 then onto the turn off for Bonar Bridge and some twisties.
1st pictures are views from the Struie of the Dornoch Firth
Past Bonar Bridge and then the back road to the Falls of Shin visitors centre/café. The “thing” sculpture cum walkway cover is, apparently, a salmons tail!
Headed for Altnaharra and happened upon some open gates . . .
Took a left at Altnaharra and took the very small road that runs along the base of the hill Ben Hope
This is called a Brock – Wikipedia is your friend if more info is required
And who lives in a house like this . . .
Looking back at Ben Hope & it’s similarly named Loch
Next bit of tarmac that didn’t have huge clumps of grass growing out of the middle of the road was part of the NC500 route. This is the sea Loch Eribol
Nearer Durness can be found stunning beaches like this . . .
The only problem with taking a dip in the brimmy up here is that you very quickly turn the same colour as the water
A nice scenic picture of a Scottish hill
And then there is this one, Arkle, a favourite of mine
All told I covered 308 miles . . . and there is still some fuel available for use in the little bikes tank. Now that is impressive . . . even if my average speed wasn’t. But you don’t see much when you wiz past things
Steve T
, that gets you a little further north-west.
. When were we there? 
