533pm Dornoch to Tain

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Friday, the 2nd May, 2025]

After a brisk lunch, I set off down the grassy path towards the shore. This is the edge of Dornoch Firth. I am sure it looks more scenic when the tide comes in!

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533am Dornock to Tain

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 2nd May, 2025]

I catch the bus to Dornoch (a BUS – yes, I’ve reached civilisation again!) and walk back to where I ended yesterday’s trek. On the way, I pass a row of old cottages, one with a stone set in its garden. An ancient standing stone? A mile-marker? Or a gravestone?

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532 Embo to Dornoch

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Thursday, 1st May, 2025]

It’s been nearly a year since I was last in Scotland, and it is great to be back. I walk though the outskirts of the static-home holiday park at Embo, and head for the shore. A man on a mobility scooter is sitting facing the water… and I can’t resist taking this photograph. What a view!

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Why the long break?

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

Well, I never got back to Scotland in September, and have only just finished writing up the walks for 2024, nearly a year after my last coastal-walking trip. I know people have been worrying about me and many of my kind blog readers have messaged me privately. And so, I think you all deserve an explanation.

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531 Skelbo to Embo

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Monday, 27th May, 2024]

The seals are out on the sand banks in the mouth of Loch Fleet. Too many to count. Sunbathing.

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530 Littleferry to Skelbo

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Monday, the 26th May, 2024]

What a difference a day makes! Yesterday, I walked in glorious sunshine. Today it is dull and rainy.

I cycle back to the spot where I ended yesterday’s walk, and chain my bike up beside a tree.

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529 Golspie to Littleferry

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Saturday, 25th May, 2024]

Today is a day of high clouds, bright seas, and intermittent sunshine. Tide is high when I set off along the promenade from Golspie, heading south to a place called Littleferry.

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528 Crackaig to Brora

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Friday, the 24th May, 2024]

Today, I must fill in the missing gap. And, I have a very unpleasant cycle ride along the busy A9, with narrow lanes and a horrible surface to cycle on. Cars and lorries whizzing by my elbow. Frightening.

I head down the quiet lane in Crackaig (the road surface here is terrible too), and stop near the entrance to the campsite by the railway bridge. This is where I finished my walk on Tuesday. Chain up my Scooty bike near a stack of hay bales, and set off back up the little lane towards the A9.

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527 Brora to Golspie

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Thursday 23rd May 2024]

Today, I’m jumping ahead of myself on my walk – for a very good reason. It is too windy to cycle safely and, without my bike, I have no way of getting back to where I ended my previous walk – in the middle-of-nowhere place called Crackaig.

But, there happens to be a bus service along the A9. So, I can catch a bus to the next place up the coast, a village called Brora. From here, I will be walking back to my base in Golspie.

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526pm Portgower to Crackaig

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on Tuesday 21st May, 2024]

I’ve just finished taking my self-portrait, when a young male hiker appears along the path. I have to hastily remove the remnants of my picnic lunch – and my camera – because I am blocking his way! Take a photo of his disappearing back.

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