North Coast of Scotland

Thursday was a driving day. We basically drove from Ullapool across the entire north coast of Scotland to the very end at John O’ Groats. This officially completed our End to Enders (Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’ Groats in Scotland). My selfie didn’t turn out that great but a helpful lady took our picture with the sign, but cut off the sign.

But to start back at the beginning of the day, it was SUNNY for the first time in Scotland and so I took a ton of pictures. First stop was a ruined mansion Calda House and Ardvreck Castle beside Loch Assynt.

Next we went over the Kylesku Bridge separating Loch a’ Chàirn Bhàin and Loch Gleann Dubh. We spent most of the day driving around lochs or inlets.

After our long drive we got to take a ferry from Gills Bay to St. Margaret’s Hope on South Ronaldsay (Orkney Islands). This ferry was flatter than the others we’d taken. You drove on and drove your car around the edge so you were pointing back out front. We rocked a lot in the roughest part of the crossing and half of the car alarms were going off. It was funny. But the weather was beautiful and there was such a pretty sunset.