[This walk was completed on Saturday, 3rd May, 2025]
I catch the bus back to Tain, and it is a short walk through the town down to the shore, where an open green space provides an area to walk and play. I cut across the grass towards the water’s edge.
[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!
[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?
[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!
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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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Incident number: 1229Response ID 329,262,000 Date: 16/4/26 Location: Preston Bagot, Warwickshire. Grid reference 176644 2 people, no dog Report: “Walking around the edge of a field the cows charged. I had to climb over a barbed wire fence while my husband ran around the corner of the field.It would be great to see special fencing […]
Incident number: 1228Response ID 329,163,280 Date: 8/4/26 Location ///farm.prepare.character, Between Unstone Green and Dronfield,Derbyshire 2 People, with 2 dogs on lead Incident Summary: “On 8th April 2026, while traversing the established public footpath southwest from Highgate Lane, our party (two adults and two canine companions on leads) encountered an aggressive bovine. The animal emerged from […]
We all have a right to walk safely along footpaths, and we can’t predict which cattle will be aggressive.
Ruth's Coastal Walk (UK) 