This morning after checking out the tourist information center, a display on the local nuclear power station, getting some money and other such chores we headed along the north coast towards the town of John O'Groats.

Along the way we took a side trip to Dunnet Head, the most northerly point on the British mainland. We wandered amongst relics of WWII lookouts and other kinds of establishments and looked across Pentland Firth to Orkney (we have learned not to call them The Orkney Islands).

The name John O'Groats is a corruption of Jan De Groot, a dutchman who built a house on the town site in the late 1400s and ran a ferry to Orkney from the town site.

The town had a nice, though wind swept, campsite.