The Bone Caves

Leaving the comforts of our campsite we embarked on our voyage further south with empty bins, full water, and a renewed desire to travel.

Our first stop only slightly down the road from the campsite was the castle of Ardvrek. Like many of the surrounding castles it was completely demolished and many of the surrounding buildings are no longer even visible. Its almost as if someone created the castle just so a romantic ruin could be seen on the shores of yet another Scottish loch.

Another day another waterfall.

Our big stop of the day was the Bone Caves which held some of the oldest bones from all of the Highlands, These caves we sealed off by the advancing glaciers in the valley outside. This process did destroy all of the evidence of inhabitation outside of the cave but inside bones over 8,000 years old were preserved like a time capsule.

Heading up the east coast to the towns of Wick and Thurso we were a bit disappointed by the unaesthetic nature of these remote towns. The reason, it appears, is because they are often seen in contrast to the incredibly picturesque towns like Ullapool which was incredible. Newly built in 1788 the town celebrated it's 200 year anniversary with this cool quilt in 1988.

Our last major stop of the day was at the Corrieshalloch Gorge with its over 150 year old bridge, instilling lots of confidence in those of us with a fear of heights.

The bridge across the gorge crossed perhaps the best waterfall of the trip so far, although Danni prefers the wider shorter ones.

The face of a man with lots of confidence in the ground that supports him.