Now in a cold wet and windy Inverness reflecting back on a fantastic week of sailing with John Furneaux.  Our last day involved the longest sail of the trip so we were both too tired last night to do any celebrating of the end of this leg.  I'll miss John he is excellent company.

The only bit I haven't mentioned was the town of Wick. Sorry no photos yet.  Wick was basically rebuilt and redesigned by Thomas Telford into a fishing port that could handle huge amounts of Herring. Over a 1000 boats sailed out of this little port at one time following the herring ( silver darlings) round the coast. Now sadly Wick has declined badly and seems to have little industry and a heavy cloud of dispair over it - even in the sunshine. Lots of telfords warehouses and dwellings and factories are still there, and apparently they are all lsited building, unfortunately they are mostly empty and are decaying.  Come now Alec Samond surely this place is worth a bit of investment, its fascinating to look round but really sad.