A very easy day trip from Thurso is Dunnet Head. It's a peninsula and the trip brings you to the most Northern part of the UK mainland. As a daytripper these locations give you a nice perspective of distance and borders of a country, but of course, in worse times these places provide amazing viewpoints for the military.
Near the Dunnet Head lighthouse are minor fortifications built during World War II to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow, including a Chain Home Low radar station and a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War. Burifa Hill on Dunnet Head was the site of the master station and a monitoring station of the northern GEE chain of radio navigation stations during World War II. There was also an artillery range on Dunnet Head during World War II.
[View from what I'll now call the 'most Northern picture' I took on the UK mainland. Might not actually be true, but to believe it is nice anyway.]
While walking to some of the military buildings the wind got stronger and stronger. Since the buildings lie both on open terrain and a bit higher from where you can park, the wind at some point gets deafening.
As a photographer I often try to get closer to objects to see if I can find more interesting perspectives to shoot from. I was glad I did. Maybe other people understand this just by looking at it, but I often need real-world interaction to have these 'insights'. The wall in front of the door is the perfect windshield.
I walked to the door and just stood there, eyes closed, enjoying the lack of wind and a clear non-deafened head.
OTHER STORIES ON THE NORTH-COAST 500
- Put this on your bucket list: Driving the North-Coast 500
- The North-Coast 500: from Inverness to Lochcarron via Applecross [First leg]
- The North-Coast 500: a detour to the Isle of Skye
- The North-Coast 500: from Lochcarron to Rhiconich [Second leg]
- The North-Coast 500: A magical stop at Inverewe Gardens
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