Hay's Way: Katharine has reached the northern most tip of Scotland, Dunnet Head

Join Scotsman rural affairs correspondent Katharine Hay as she tours Scotland on foot

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00:00Hello, so that's me made it to Dunnet Head which is the most northern point on the UK

00:29mainland. Behind me you can see there's a lighthouse up here and it was built by the

00:34grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson and yeah it's it's also an RSPB nature reserve

00:42up here and there's a point just down from where I'm standing where you can watch quite

00:47a lot of different species of bird flying sort of around the cliffs here and today I've

00:52already seen Guillemot, Razorbill, Gannets, Kittiwakes, Falmers so yeah it's obviously

00:59a really good place for for bird life and to come and come and look at them look at

01:05them as well but yeah so it's quite interesting I think a lot of people think that John O'Groats

01:11is the most northern point in the UK because of the popular route John O'Groats to Land's

01:16End but it is actually where I'm standing just now Dunnet Head and yeah quite a few

01:22visitors here people obviously coming to see it for that reason but it's also a very nice

01:29lighthouse and there's still the lighthouse keepers cottage as well on site but yeah from

01:34here I'm going to be heading west now towards Thurso and on towards Cape Roth where I'm

01:39hoping to see another lighthouse up there as well.