Scotland - Day Three

First of all, just to show off, we have reached the northiest point of UK which we could drive to ! But for the order lets follow the events.

We started the day in Inverness and took the right decision of NOT going to the island Kirkwall. This allowed us to drove slowly on the east coast. For our surprise, we found a perfect breakfast point: it was the famous whiskey distillery Glandmorangue. It is the third biggiest producer of single malt whiskey. A tour around the distillery is a bit short but it shows all the process and very interesting.

The most important in whiskey is water and to make sure that the distillery has enough of fresh and not polluted water they bought all the land around the distillery. (650gektars) Additional spying information we can provide is that they produce 3.5million liters of whiskey a year. But think about it, they distill it now and make the profit only ten years later. The freshly produced whiskey has 60-70% of alcohol. For me, standing there, it was hard to hold a bottle that aged for 30years , knowing that I am 30 this year.
Following whiskey breakfast we drove north passing small villages on the way. The nature is great with beautiful landscapes but nothing attracted our attention to make a stop. On place did attract us, it was a Tescos shop. We bought a roasted chicken and kept if for the right moment. The right moment has come half an hour later when we arrived to the Duncansby Head. It is the Northiest Eastern point in UK. There, sitting on a cliff and watching the sea we enjoyed sun, wind and the roasted chicken.
For our surprise we saw stones in the middle of the sea. Apparently ten minutes later we decided that it is divers because the points were apparently moving. Our surprise had no limit when we realized that it were sea lions who were coming close and probably were disparate for the chicken. We made our way back to the car as fast as we could but not because of the lions, it was the Midjets, a type of mosquitoes who bite us instantly.
The northiest point is located at Dunnet Head and it is a beautiful sight seeing point with view for the sea and the landscapes and cliffs. Being there was really the highest point of the day. We even opened a whiskey bottle to celebrate the event.

Then we drove on the north coast roads to the Durnell, where we found a Youth Hostell. Cheap and clean, perfect for us. Have to mention that most of the roads are very narrow one line roads with many wider places, called Passing Points, which we used as a Pissing Points.

To summarize the day, it is great area of UK. Very quiet with almost no people,no civilization and no WiFi, it seemed that the only habitants who took over the land were sheeps. The othe fact which made us wonder is that the landscape had no trees at all. Only at the hostel we were explained by a nice lady that it is probably due to the strong winds and salty sea side environment.
Writing these lines on a hilllllllllll !!!!

Now its time for bed. Goooood Night.