THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING..
GET YOUR TICKET TO THE CHALLENGE OF THE BRIDGES
Booking for the Caithness and Sutherland Walking Festival 2025..Further details are in Environmental News. .
Public liability insurance is provided by Hiscox through the Marine Conservation Society, in particular the bridges challenge. Walks led by other organisations, such as the John O Groats Development Trust will have their own insurance.
For Caithness and Sutherland Walking Festival, community groups and charities can express their interest here.
Wednesday 7 May - A walk and a chat at Sandside Beach near Reay. For the purposes of insurance and control of numbers, people are requested to book. Fee is £3 per person, including a leaflet about the area. We plan on looking at solar panels while we travel down the coast to see how we can help the technology.
Description of the history of the site going back over 25 years.
Thursday 8 May is VE Day and Walter Mowatt will lead a walk at John o Groats at 15:00 - free. Prior to that there will be a Veterans breakfast at Morags Cafe in Wick. Those who have Veterans Cards will get a discount from Friends of the North Highland Way. Morag is great.. she bought a copy of the Environmental News, so is a Friend of the North Highland Way herself. She also has a great information point.
We are preparing a special book by Cpl Tina Irving Rtd and advised by Wendy H. Jones, an author from Dundee.
Friday 9 May and 10 May 2025 we focus on the bridges, but you can sign up to do the bridges at any time.
OFFERS
Dogs are welcome at both the Causewaymire site, and at Sandside beach.
When you purchase any of our books during the Caithness and Sutherland Walking Festival, you will get a free Long Distance Walkers T shirt.
While stocks last. You can get a Friends of the North Highland t shirt at any time.
We have more about the Walking Festival here.... join us. You can send your bag.
Get off at your foodstop and accommodation providers can do the survey (includes campsites)
Some years ago, a local historian helped write the book "WWII Sites in Caithness" They are available on Amazon. We have a Help for Heroes scarf, QARANC paraphernalia, cushions etc. and even found some information about WWII in Ireland in an old magazine.
In 2025, our mascot is the Highland Cow. We have a quiz "What is the difference between a Highland Cow and a Lincolnshire Red" in our magazine Environmental News. No one has come up with the answer yet. We have fluffy Highland Cow notebooks, Highland Cow hot water bottles and will shortly have Highland Cow t shirts. There are so many Highland Cow products. You can have a look in our shop to see if we have any in stock.
You can get on this page for a fee of £10.00 payable by Paypal to tinadirving@gmail.com.