A very easy day trip from Thurso is Dunnet Head. It's a peninsula and the trip brings you to the most Northern part of the UK mainland. As a daytripper these locations give you a nice perspective of distance and borders of a country, but of course, in worse times these places provide amazing viewpoints for the military.

According to Wikipedia:

Near the Dunnet Head lighthouse are minor fortifications built during World War II to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow, including a Chain Home Low radar station and a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War. Burifa Hill on Dunnet Head was the site of the master station and a monitoring station of the northern GEE chain of radio navigation stations during World War II. There was also an artillery range on Dunnet Head during World War II.


[View from what I'll now call the 'most Northern picture' I took on the UK mainland. Might not actually be true, but to believe it is nice anyway.]

While walking to some of the military buildings the wind got stronger and stronger. Since the buildings lie both on open terrain and a bit higher from where you can park, the wind at some point gets deafening.

As a photographer I often try to get closer to objects to see if I can find more interesting perspectives to shoot from. I was glad I did. Maybe other people understand this just by looking at it, but I often need real-world interaction to have these 'insights'. The wall in front of the door is the perfect windshield.

I walked to the door and just stood there, eyes closed, enjoying the lack of wind and a clear non-deafened head.

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