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Day 6: Tongue–Wick

83 miles/2hrs

By Tongue you’ll have left the rockier parts of the journey behind and traded it for bleak but beautiful, and often dramatic, moorland scenery interspersed with sea lochs.

Things begin to flatten around Thurso, so that the drive to the small city of Wick, though still scenic, is very different to what’s west. Though the impressive coastline continues (including at the Stacks of Duncansby), the backdrop is a patchwork of agricultural fields.


The sequence of points-of-interest along the route is: Tongue - Strathnaver Museum - Thurso - Mary Ann's Cottage - Castle & Gardens of Mey - John o' Groats - Stacks of Duncansby - Wick

Castle & Gardens of Mey

Queen mum’s fancy

John o' Groats

Land's End's brother

Mary Ann's Cottage

Time-machine without the buttons

Stacks of Duncansby

Sea stacks par excellence

Strathnaver Museum

Local history & driving trail

Thurso

Victorian transport hub & surf!

Tongue

Crofting village with services

Wick

Where once the herring boomed

Text © Christian Williams

Image by Thincat