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Day 76 Beyond Alness to Dornoch (1000 miles completed!)

 

It was cloudy but dry as I dropped Garry 4 miles outside Alness. He very quickly made it to 1000 miles total completed since Land's End!

                     

Garry continued along country lanes, fairly unremarkable into Tain, a small town. He had views to his right of the Cromarty Firth. Me and Alfie met Garry 2 miles out of Tain and we walked back together. The sun had come out by now and stayed out for the rest of the day. 

Garry turned off and headed along the John o'Groats trail northwards out of the town, through a colourful subway.  Me and Alfie had a wander into Tain centre and found another heart to photograph.




Garry crossed the A9 once again at Morangie, near to Glenmorangie distillery. He went up and over a hill through some woodland and then came down to a roundabout just before the A9 crosses the Dornoch Firth. 


Crossing the narrow bridge for over a mile wasn't particularly pleasant. Once he reached the northern banks he climbed back over the barriers and went down to the shore and through some pretty, flat landscape with gorse bushes which was well defined. 



Garry turned right at Cuthill and followed a lane passed some woods and some very nice houses towards Dornoch. He passed a few sights, a camping site, a golf driving range and an archery club. 

                                               

Whilst Garry was admiring the sights as he headed into Dornoch, me and Alfie had gone for  visit to Dornoch beach, a lovely long stretch of sand, where Alfie enjoyed a few sprints and a paddle! It was quite warm by then so we headed back to the air conditioned car to cool down and head into Dornoch to meet Garry. 



        

   

We all met together in the delightful town of Dornoch for a coffee and to photograph another of the hearts. 



       

As Garry had walked an additional 4 miles yesterday, he decided to continue walking today form the end point of Tain into Dornoch, so reducing the total walk by one day, combining 3 days of walking into 2. 


A total of 16.8 miles walked today with another bridge over another firth completed.





Tomorrow's walk will from Dornoch to Golspie, along the coast again. 





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