Holiday Cottages Caithness

Here's what you can see and do when staying at one of our cottages in Caithness.

From a base in one of our holiday cottages Caithness - a great northern wilderness - offers sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of life. This most northerly of mainland Scottish counties is relatively flat in contrast to the rest of the far north of Scotland. Most of this unspoilt landscape is dominated by open moorland and peat bog (the world's best preserved area of natural peat bog and its flora and fauna) broken by straths (river valleys) of more fertile farm and croft land and occasional scattered settlements. The area is fringed to the north and east by a spectacular coastline of dramatic cliffs and sheltered harbours, ruined castles and colonies of seabirds. This remains the case all the way down the coast through the small fishing villages of Lybster, Latheron and Dunbeath and north from Wick around Sinclair's Bay, past John O'Groat's to Duncansby Head. Here especially you cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of the awesome power of the sea. On a clear day you can make out the Old Man of Hoy an isolated spire of rock lying off the Orkneys. Just to the east is lovely Dunnet Bay and the Castle of Mey, the late Queen Mother's favourite retreat. The castle is now open to the public.

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