Strathy Point

About half way along the north coast is Strathy Point. It's not quite the most northerly point of the mainland, but it does lie at the end of a peninsula, and you need to walk to reach it - the road is just for access to the lighthouse and the farmer whose sheep graze the fields.  The car park is at Totegan Farm, and the walk is a simple (mostly downhill) stroll along the tarmac road.

The lighthouse, like the vast majority nowadays, is automated, although the outbuildings are still inhabited.  It's not one of the more picturesque lighthouses, as it sits on a rise and doesn't really need to be any taller than it actually is. It's a modern lighthouse, dating from 1958, and was the first one to be built as an all electric station. It filled in the last dark gap on the north coast, and the light can be seen for 26 miles.  There had been a temporary light there during the Second World War, and eventually it was concluded that it was really necessary.
But the lighthouse isn't the main reason for the walk.
If you go across the moor to the left of the picture, to this side of the lighthouse, you come to a small cliff with a view of a small sea arch.

We were lucky: the tide was just at the best height to appreciate it, and there was a small sea running, which really helped pick the arch out from among the dark rocks.  The mass of rock in the foreground is geologically very interesting.  There's a very old gneiss outcrop here among the mainly sedimentary rocks, possibly over 3,000 million years old - although the geologists aren't totally sure!