Before heading back south from Thurso I’m nipping back to Duncansby Head, the northeasternmost tip of Scotland (and the UK) which is not, as most people might think, John O’Groats. Duncansby Head is a few miles eastward along a one-track road.

As we had factored in possible traffic delays we had an hour or so’s grace before the ferry to Orkney and so took in the Head.

Cliffs and an inlet:-

The cliffs are home to lots of seabirds:-

As you might expect there’s a lighthouse at the land’s end:-

Just to the south of the head are these rocks sticking up out of the sea. They’re known as the Duncansby Stacks:-

On the way across to Orkney on the ferry I took this photo of Duncansby Head from ten or so miles away in the Pentland Firth:-