We left Spean Bridge this morning after a final farewell to family. Below is the guest house that has been our home for the last week. It was originally built as a family home for Lyn’s Aunt, Uncle and 5 children about 60 years ago. It has since been expanded a couple of times.
One thing I haven’t mentioned about Spean, and probably the thing it is most famous for is the Caommando Memorial (Commando Memorial – Wikipedia). It was unveiled in 1952 and overlooks the training areas used by the commandos.
Today’s drive is to Cromarty, although the scenery was great as usual, it was a bit misty so the photos wouldn’t have done it justice.
We made a brief stop at Chanonry Point Lighthouse in the hope of seeing dolphins, but they didn’t want to come out and play.
We reached Cromarty, which is a small village on the coast with even smaller streets. It seems that the roads are just wide enough for 1.95 cars and they happily park on the street leaving very little room to get by. I realize this is probably quite normal for the Brits, but us Colonials are not used to this!!
Cromarty has a harbour and even a couple of oil rigs. There also seems to be an area where they load windmills onto ships to take out and “plant” in the sea for off-shore electricity generation.
We had some time to kill so we took a walk around the village. Below is an old and odd shaped tree that caught our attention. Unfortunately it doesn’t come out too clearly in the photo because the house in the background.
Tomorrow we head out to sea in the hope of seeing some dolphins (I think I said whales earlier, I may have been wrong). After that we join the NC500 proper (North Coast 500 – The ultimate road trip around the North of Scotland) with a destination of Helmsdale. Now it’s off to the pub for dinner!
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