{"id":573889877,"date":"2017-05-28T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889877"},"modified":"2022-08-28T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T02:40:38","slug":"cape-wrath-and-smoo-cave-in-durness-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/cape-wrath-and-smoo-cave-in-durness-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Wrath and Smoo Cave, in Durness Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a ton of great stuff here. (The short version is, if you&#8217;ve contemplated visiting Scotland, you should make it happen.) In this post there are two videos, two dozen photos and a panorama at the end. They are all worth seeing, so let&#8217;s get right to it. <\/p>\n<p>I took this picture thinking, really, how often are you going to see a lamb warning written on a tire? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may76.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Six times, as it turns out. Here are three of our Ovis friends now:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may77.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We visited Cape Wrath, on a whim, really, and it was worth it. I made you a video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zs8Ag1oqaDs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only one person lives there now. There are a few houses, leftovers from the drovers and shepherds. And you drive right by the bombing range. It is a sparse and scenic one hour, 11-mile van ride to get up to the cape. The whole trip is worth it. Here&#8217;s some photo proof:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may78.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may79.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may80.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may81.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may82.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may83.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may84.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may86.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may87.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may88.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may89.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Cape Wrath is about a mile out of Durness, which is the little village on the northwest corner of Scotland. In that little quiet little place there are two small restaurants, an artists&#8217; village, one gas pump, a hotel and Smoo Cave:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbjgmJVegF0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may90.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may91.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may92.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may93.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This area is dangerous for stick figures named Cliff. (The rest of us are on our own.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may94.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hey, sheep, your name isn&#8217;t Cliff, is it?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/may95.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally, this panorama is from above the inlet at Smoo Cave. Way, way off in the distance to the left you could just make out Cape Wrath. And way off in the distance to the right, on a clear day, you could almost imagine seeing the far cliffs of the north east of Scotland. We&#8217;ll be there in a day or so. As always with the panoramas on the site, click to embiggen: <\/p>\n<p><center><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/panorama07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"228\" width=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may17\/panorama07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a ton of great stuff here. (The short version is, if you&#8217;ve contemplated visiting Scotland, you should make it happen.) In this post there are two videos, two dozen photos and a panorama at the end. They are all worth seeing, so let&#8217;s get right to it. I took this picture thinking, really, how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,75,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-photo","category-scotland","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894735,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889877\/revisions\/573894735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}