These are old photos from our midsummer week in Durness in 1996: the photos are pretty rough, scanned from paper copies for the web, and we had really no experience with photography back then, so apologies for all that: the main thing we want to show is the Loch Eriboll wheelhouse, in case you've not come across it.

This is a wild though quite sheltered, spot, about 1,000 feet above the Loch. It's protected from the east side by a small steep rise, and from the southwest by the huge boulderfields of Beinn Spionnaidh northern outliers. From the doorway at the north of the building, you look down a chain of lochans towards the white cliffs and the sea. It feels quite secluded yet the views are inspiring. Some of it still has the large roof-slabs in place, but they only give about four feet of headroom above the current ground level!

The Iron Age wheelhouse above Loch Eriboll:
Inside the wheelhouse	Looking north from inside the wheelhouse	The wheelhouse from the outside
Looking north from outside the wheelhouse, towards Whiten Head and the north Atlantic

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