Dirlot Castle (2)
This is what is known as the 'Flow Country', which covers an enormous area (1500 square miles) of Sutherland, and Caithness in particular.  The name seems somewhat paradoxical because, with it being so flat, 'flowing' is the one thing it is not very good at doing, but in fact it comes from the Norse word 'floi' meaning wet or marshy!  And it is!  

Once the mountains on the border of Sutherland and Caithness have been left behind (that's them in the distance, dominated by the unmistakable twin-topped peak of Morven), the Scottish mainland, so dominated by craggy mountains for the last couple of hundred miles, fades away into a vast and gently rolling expanse of peat-land, dotted with pools and lochs and slowly meandering peaty-brown rivers.
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