Monday 1st May Durness ( struggling to download photos on web site due to poor wifi reception will download later in week when signal stronger) After a wild, windy night requiring a trip outside to tape down banging flaps at 2.45am, it settled down to become a glorious sunny day with manageable winds.We walked the coastal path to Faraid head, walking along a peninsula with stunning beaches along one side, culminating in an MoD defence target range for warships at the top of the headland. We caught a glimpse of Cape Wrath A ruined church at the base of Balnakiel Bay has the grave of Elizabeth Parkes an aunt of John Lennon . We walked on to Balnakiel crafts village for coffee and tasty bagels at the Whalebone cafe with a range of cool second hand books, Kerouac, Banksy, Kafka etc ,an oasis of alternative culture Walked back to the campsite and on to Smoo cave, a deep limestone cave with a blow joke accessed from the beach, with an inner cave only reachable by boat, and finally onto the beach nearest the campsite with an impressive range of rocks dotted around the beach Last drink in the pub and got chatting to a NZ cyclist,cycling from Fort William to John o Groats .He ran a horse trekking business and said he was impressed by the grandeur and scale of the scenery here , and exhausted battling head on winds the last 3 days Home to watch the finale of Line of Dirty , Game of Thrones and so to bed Happy to be walking longer distances (10 miles today )