After the stormy day of yesterday we woke up to a beautiful sunny day.  We had our breakfast, packed up our belongings, loaded the car and went for a walk in front of our B&B. Today is so much different than yesterday.  The wind is down, the sun is shinning, it is beautiful!  We walk out to the spit.  A family of Swans are feeding nearby.  There is a couple and 7 signets.  The babies are very large, about the same size of Canada Geese.

This is our B&B from father out on the spit in front.  Our room is the top left gable window.

We head south today, towards St. Margaret’s Hope where we will take the ferry back to the Scottish mainland.  We go farther south to see some of the area that we have not seen yet.  Here are some of the images we captured.  Still can’t believe the sun is shining so brightly today!

During WW2 On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow (from Old Norse Skalpaflói, meaning ‘bay of the long isthmus’) in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47.  Winston Churchill ordered the construction of several permanent barriers to prevent any further attacks.  Today these are causeways that connect some of the smaller southern islands of the Orkneys.  The yellow lines on this map are the causeways.

We sail on the 2:45 ferry back to the mainland and make our way to the hotel we have booked.  It is in Castletown, the Castletown Hotel.  It old, it’s “ok”, but it’s clean and availability for the next few days is very limited.  We had a good meal.  A seafood salad platter.

Tomorrow we are off to the town of Tain.  We will see what that has to offer.  🙂