Today Tuesday 23rd June was also mainly dry with some brief bursts of sunshine. We took the ferry from St Margarets Hope on South Ronaldsay back to Gill's Bay, close to John O' Groats on the Scottish Mainland.

During the ferry crossing we passed the Island of Stroma - once a thriving community - now uninhabited - the last family having emigrated in the 1990s.

As we were running low on LPG we made a detour 15 miles south to Watten were we knew there was a garage which stocked Autogas. Having filled up we came back north to Thurso and then west along the north coast of Scotland to the Kyle of Tongue where we are stopped tonight. Here's the view from our van looking towards Ben Loyal (764 metres).