Join our High Summer Party. You will of course be encouraged to walk along the glorious six miles of sandy beach around the Bay. At this time of year you may well see the tail or fin of a passing sea trout waiting for the autumn rains to run up the River Wester and return to its native spawning grounds.

You could take the ferry from John O’Groats, across the Pentland Firth to the glorious Islands of Orkney. Spend the day enjoying the wonders of Skara Brae, the Standing Stones and St. Magnus Cathedral.

And as you cross the treacherous Pentland Firth remember it was here long ago, the pilots of this notorious water used to live escorting the schooners and traders of another age on their journey to the New World. Oft was the occasion that a schooner in too much of a hurry dropped off his luckless pilot in Quebec rather than Caithness. The fare home no doubt more than the poor man’s navigational fee.

Visit the Highland Games by the Castle of Mey. Witness the heavyweights with their cabers and weights. The pipe bands and comics, the dancers.

We will have a grand dinner in the Great Hall. The silver gleaming in the candlelight and the roaring log fires. And then we will have a ceilidh with the Highland lassies. There are always surprises galore, pipes and drums, drams and sloe gin.