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Great first half of the walk

Great first half of the walk


Postby Gchurchlow » Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:37 pm

Route description: Castle Sinclair Girnigoe and Noss Head

Date walked: 20/08/2018

Distance: 9 km

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Great walk if you want dramatic seaviews, plenty of wildlife and ruined castles. You get all of these in the first half of the walk. The cliffedge walk at the start has now been enclosed between fences and can be quite narrow before emerging onto open fields.
Take time to visit the castle as the remaining walk is along roads and is, frankly, dull.
It would be helpful if the instructions indicated length of stages.....
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Re: Great first half of the walk

Postby Sgurr » Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:38 pm

Loved Noss Head, think it was the best day of our Shetland trip, even though the puffins had left by then. Do you have pics?

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