29th MAY - MELVICH TO KINLOCHBERVIE

Early breakfast today, leaving Melvich at 8.20am. We were looking to take the ferry over to Cape Wrath and having yesterday spoken to the guy who operated the ferry, he told us to arrive at the ferry port by 10.30am. This we did, but unfortunately there were about 20 people ahead of us and as there was only one (16 seater) minibus available (to drive the 11 miles to the lighthouse (end of the road) at Cape Wrath), we had to give up on this trip. Ironically, the weather was absolutely fantastic this morning, beautiful sunshine, blue skies and not too windy. Well, we may try again tomorrow, before we travel down to Ullapool.

After leaving Melvich, we had travelled west through Tongue and Durness on very narrow, single track roads with the usual passing places, pretty much par for the course this far north. From the ferry port (which was only 3 miles south of Durness), we carried on heading south to our B&B near Kinlochbervie (on the west coast and a very large fishing port / market) and arrived about 11.30am. Not as picturesque an area as I had imagined. A total of 80 miles driven today.

The weather, as it's been since we left Peebles, has remained generally very good, with only the odd heavy shower of rain.

Had lunch at our B&B before going out for a walk. Dinner booked for tonight - our B&B has a really good restaurant.

Durness Bay

Looking from the ferry port to Cape Wrath

The view from our B&B near Kinlochbervie