There is a good camp site in Durness and I stayed there 20th and 21st nights. There is also a pub, a Spar and a couple of petrol pumps (which turn out to be part of the Spar). It also has a John Lennon Memorial Garden (rather depressing); he regularly came here as a child – apparently “In my life” is about Durness.
Crofting fields
The worst thing about Durness is the appalling/inappropriate street lighting
Depressing Memorial garden - and street lighting at the back
Lovely beaches, – no awful street lighting
Durness is also famous for the limestone Smoo Cave.
There is a boat trip. Again no lifejackets but you get a safety helmet (just as well) – although the guide/boatman didn’t bother with one.
You can only go in the boat when it hasn’t been raining as the boat won’t get under the wooden and the limestone bridges.
Durness also had a radar station, which is now small workshops, bookshops, cafes
The weather on the longest day was, in Durness, a bit miserable. I wondered how the festivities would be progressing in Shetland and whether some folk would set off at midnight to play a round of golf….
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