We finally have to leave the solutiude and romance of Sandwood Bay and head for Cape Wrath lighthouse. Although we can see the lighthouse form the bay itself, the first fence we have to cross has the ominous sign, suggesting that checking for a live firing exercise might be a sensible thing to do! However, there’s no phone signal at the bay and we felt confident from the conversations we had with villagers and shop keeprs on route, that live firing had been cancelled that day. Even so, we umm’d and ahh’d for a while before deciding as we couldn’t hear anything exploding to go for it! Underfoot it was probably the hardest part of the trip. We chose not to stick close to the coast, which would have meant dropping into deep gullies only to have to climb back out again, but keep a kilometre inland where the track was more undulating. I say track, but it was more a case of picking the best line through the bog and marshland.

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