Day trippers

We had plenty of spare hours to fill before catching the evening ferry home and so took a wander around the Black Isle.  Here's a wonderful wall at the ruins of Fortrose Cathedral which has used robbed stone to reinvent the old Sacristry (the only fairly intact building that has survived) into secular use. The old gravestone is dated 1668 and the other bits of dressed masonry obviously came from elsewhere. The cathedral ruins are just the remains of the south aisle with impressive tombs of Mackenzies, but sadly it's fenced off by iron railings and you're left to imagine it's original splendour. 

The weather was fairly rubbish so we just drove down to Chanonry Point where we've previously had wonderful views of dolphins; not the season for seeing them just now though, so we kept moving on up to the tip of the peninsula and admired the view across the estuary to where we'd be driving in a couple of hours' time. Cromarty was a lovely, picturesque place which I would imagine has plenty of tourists in the summer but we only stopped for a (very good) coffee before heading back to the main drag and northwards to home. 

Chris has been great, driving all the way. I'm really hoping it's not too long before I'm back to normality and he's relieved of chauffeur duties. 

Good to be home!