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The most beautiful beaches
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The road to get there, one single track road.
In a nutshell
Go, just to say you've been there
nickandchris Says: Durness is one place on the north coast where petrol is available,so take advantage, even if it is expensive. You can't do without!! (We paid £1.38 a litre, the most expensive petrol we have ever bought but then think of the distances involved to transport the stuff.)There...
nickandchris Says: There is a small passenger ferry that leaves Keoldale on the Kyle of Durness and transports you across the water. You then catch an optional minibus that takes you 10 miles along a very narrow, often steep road to the very tip of Cape Wrat, to Robert Stevenson's lighthouse...
nickandchris Says: In Durness, turn off northwards to Balnakeil Bay (signposted.) This road takes you past a collecton of old military buildings which have been used since the 1960's for craft workshops. Today, there are around a dozen outlets including a woodwind instrument maker and you are...
nickandchris Says: The Durness area is renowned for it's glorious sand beaches, clear waters, white sands and rolling waves. When conditions are right, it's a surfer's paradise.I was amazed at the colour of the sea around Durness, but then the sun had come out and put some colour in the...
nickandchris Says: Loch Hope is actually an inland freshwater loch,east of Loch Eriboll. It is scenically attractive, surrounded by greenery,offering yet more views of Ben Hope, in the east and is a popular spot for game fishing. There were certainly a few boats dotted about it's 6 miles and...
nickandchris Says: Ard Neakie is a tiny piece of land on Loch Eriboll that is connected to the mainland by a spit of land with a stony beach either side. It is probably the most photographed part of Loch Eriboll and we were fortunate enough to spend a day camped there.The building that remains...
nickandchris Says: Loch Eriboll is a deep water sea loch between Durness and Tongue, 16 kms long and varying in depth from 15 to 60 fathoms deep. In fact, it's the most northerly deep water sea loch in the British Isles and was used during WW2 as a naval base. British servicemen nicknamd the...
1 Review and 127 Opinions Please note, these comments apply to the restaurant - Peatstacks (at Mackays Rooms, Durness) only. ...
1 Review and 16 Opinions this hostel is ok,nothing too great but its exceptionally clean and well organised good location...
Loch Eriboll Fisheries: Seafood Snack Van
nickandchris Says: We had seen the sign for seafood snacks, just outside Durness. OK, even though we had plenty of supplies in the motorhome, we thought we'd splash out a bit.The seafood snack van is parked in a large, quite busy parking area above the gorgeous beach of Ceannabeinne, which you...
Loch Croispol bookshop & restuarant: Nowt like a cheese toastie
Charlie_UK Says: Nice place to grab a snack or a more substantial meal - but also a bookshop so you can browse and buy while waiting for your order to arrive. Cheese toastie - well I didn't try anything else.
Outdoors: More like twilight life
Charlie_UK Says: Nightlife? Well there was a barbecue at the village hall, which has a "John Lennon tribute." This informs us that John Lennon was a singer / songwriter with the famous 1960's group "The Beatles." So if the Martians land at Durness they'll know. Can't say I was that enthused...
Smoothe cave hotel: Just one pub in all town
jcots Says: The only pub open at night in Durness, It's open until late.The guy who is playing the accordion was really dunk and funny, but the problem came when the day afterr we noticed that he was the driver of the boat that took us to Cape Wrath.But there was no problem! None
Bushman23 Says: We travelled up to Durness in my car, which was a piece of sh*t, and happened to have 2 blown tyres on the first half of the journey (the second one was 1 mile from Durness). So anyway, we hobbled into town, stopped at the first hotel we came to, and they helped us find...
jcots Says: We rent a car in Edimburgh and went all trhough Scotland and everything was ok until we found that single track road. It's not very safe and it's very slow way to get, but it's the only way. People drives a little bit crazy, but there are very few cars. On this roads ther a...
Helpfulness
I repeat the warning on my Ceduna page: When looking at eclipses remember that even a little exposed sun contains harmful UV that can damage your eyes. The Durness eclipse permitted direct viewing because it was so low and being so far north there was a lot of atmospheric refraction (giving the sun a "squashed" look.) But as it rose I saw a young girl using exposed photo film to look at the sun. THIS IS NO GOOD! COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES DO NOT FILTER OUT UV. (Only black and white film, which has been exposed and developed to maximum density, is safe.) She could have done herself damage that she would have to live with for most of her life, and grow up regretting ever looking at the sun. Use proper eclipse viewers, welders glasses or indirect viewing methods like a pinhole camera. Check all filters for scratches. If anything lets light through at all, don't use it. Eclipses are wonderful sights: Make sure you can still see the next one.
Updated Oct 6, 2003
Website: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/safety2.html
There are lots of puffins around Durness.
Me? I really can't see the appeal of them. If you want to go on a "puffin" expedition try Amsterdam (not that I do that either, I hasten to add).
Unique Suggestions: Enjoy a "Lawrence of Arabia" experience as you climb the sand dunes at Faraid head. Good caves on the peninsula too, and an interesting church ruin by the most northerly golf course in Britain.
Fun Alternatives: Alternative to watching puffins? Eat them.
Updated Jun 21, 2003
Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Mosquito repellent. You can't see them on this pic but there are a lot of small mosquitos in this area and in this pic they were attacking us.
Photo Equipment: A lot of photo rolls, there are not a lot of shops to buy them.
Written Feb 25, 2003
Bushman23 Says: Durness has at least 3 or 4 great beaches, and because Durness is miles up North, the beaches are net very crowdy (the day we were there, we had one all to ourselves!) There's a couple that are seemingly impossible to get to, but generally access to them is by tarred road.
shivan Says: I saw nothing about that, if I remember, but it is said that signs of human existence in the area are visible inside the cavern, and that they date back to 6000 years ago.I can only imagine how harsh the life should have been during those ancient times.This picture is taken...
Charlie_UK Says: Well, what else would it be? The gorgeous sandy beaches? The caves? The wild scenery? The friendly locals?Yep, that too. My relief at waking up at 3.56 am after sleeping through an alarm set for 2.30. The rest of the dorm had done the same thing so I saved the lot of us...
jcots Says: The silence at the deserted beaches. No one there and an extremely blue water.The bad thing was that I couldn't swim in it because the water was so cold.Maybe another time, or maybe never... Take a car and go to Durness. There you'll can see the authenric spirit of Scotland...
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Previous page: Tongue After our stay on Loch Eriboll, which I have placed on this page, it was time to move on and head towards Durness.We needed petrol and some basic supplies so a stop in Durness...
Our trip up to Durness is not one that i will easily forget! 5 of us left early on a Tuesday morning, all of us (being Myself, Helena, Dylan, Luke & Karel) very excited to be heading into kinda...
Durness is the most north-westerley village on mainland Britain. It has a population of about 300 scattered over a couple of miles of barren moorland, backed by wild mountain scenery and perched above...
The Cape Wrath and the Smoo Cave
Oh well, I'm happy to see how small is the number of pages here in VT about the places I'm telling about. This means that I really reached some "off the beaten path" places, and that was what I wanted...
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