Dirlot Castle (1)
Having come up the east coasts of Sutherland and Caithness, I have now diverted into the bleak interior of Caithness to Dirlot.  Bleak it certainly is, but it also has a wild beauty about it, and in an island that already has far too many people living on it, it is nice to be somewhere where there aren't any!!  I remember reading not so long ago somewhere, about a man that decided to climb Morven,  Caithness' most iconic mountain (just right of centre on the horizon), by walking all the way from Thurso.  Thurso is 12 miles north of me here and Morven is 15 miles to the south.  What a fabulous walk, although I have to admit, it has a very different feel about it on a day of heavy mist and horizontal rain!

Anyway, the reason I am here is that the large rock just beyond and left of the 17th century graveyard, used to support a small castle.
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