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| Fence posts, barbed wire and a dry stone wall on the way up |
Unlike yesterday it was, for the most part, a rainy and overcast day. However, I still felt impelled to risk a shortish walk up to the end of
the Loch of Cliff and around Houllna Gruna to visit the bay called Wood Wick. I got to the bay without getting wet at all and enjoyed my lunch and a flask of tea whilst looking westwards towards the little group of islands called
North Holms. For me the most striking thing was not so much the scenery—though that was striking enough—but the complete absence of any human sounds whatsoever; just the wind, the sea, the cry of various sea-birds and then, finally, the rain on my back.
I made my way back along the route by which I came but, towards the end, took a short-cut via an old ruined croft and a trackway that runs up to the cottage where we're staying where a warm cup of tea and dry clothes awaited me.
PHOTOS
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| My first sight of Wood Wick |
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| Wood Wick |
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| Wood Wick |
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| The south side of Wood Wick |
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| The north side of Wood Wick |
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| The view while I ate my lunch with the small islands of North Holms in the distance |
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| The ruined croft |
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| The ruined croft with the Loch of Cliff in the distance |
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| Looking towards the trackway leading back towards the Scraefield Cottage |
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| Looking back down the trackway from just below Scraefield Cottage |
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| Scraefield Cottage |
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| The view back along the trackway from the cottage |
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| Scraefield Cottage |
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