This morning Friday 19th June, before leaving our overnight parking place at Castle of Old Wick we witnessed the loss of the geological researchers' drone. They had been trying to get it going for a while until it suddenly took off, shot out over the sea and then climbed out of sight. The researchers were as you can imagine totally disconsolate. We moved on to the Hill O' Many Stanes pictured above. This ancient monument is very difficult to photograph and consists of many wobbly alignments of comparatively small standing stones. You can see me in the background to give you a sense of scale.

We moved on from the Hill O' Many Stanes the short way to Lybster Harbour where we found a tap from which to refill our van's fresh water tank.

We then travelled a few miles north to The Grey Cairns of Camster which are in remote country surrounded by blanket bog.

These burial mounds are between 4000 and 5000 years old.

Ann went into one of the burial chambers inside a cairn.

We returned briefly to Wick for blogging and charity shop visits.

We then headed north up the coast for a few miles to Nybster where we are parked for the night. We are very close to the sea. There are lots of seals and sea birds around.

The geology is very interesting looking here.

There are some strange looking monuments dotted around on the cliff tops here.

Here's another.

Nearby is Nybster Broch, a ruined fortress - here's the remains of the tower.

Here's another monument. Altogether a very interesting place. We're sharing the parking place with a Belgian van tonight. The man from this van looks just like Hercule Poirot as portrayed by David? Suchet? in films! I can't think of any other famous Belgians apart from their footballers - Fellani, Hazard and co.