We started the day with overcast sky, drizzle and biting insects and finished it camped beside Loch Eriboll, in bright sunshine, a gentle breeze and no bities. In between we traveled slowly along single track roads across the northwest corner of Scotland to the remote and sparsely inhabited north coast, really a pretty drive.

At Durness we stopped to briefly explore Smoo Cave, which really is a pair of caves one carved by the ocean and the other by a stream but over time they have merged into a single cave system. The name Smoo is a corruption of a Norse word for "cave".