Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 16 on 15/9/2004.

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Sutherland

The best places to visit, stay and eat, by Sally Toms

What to do and see

North and West

Guided Walks
The Highland Council Ranger Service organises activities and walks throughout the area. Your own personal ranger will tell you everything there is to know about the landscape and local wildlife. Lochinver’s ranger is Andy Summers:
Tel: +44 (0)571 844 654

Highland School of Fly Fishing
Lochinver
If your idea of heaven consists of a boat, a secluded loch, and plenty of hard fighting wild brown trout, then there may be no better place in the world. There are also some excellent salmon and sea-trout fishing in the surrounding area.
Tel: +44 (0)1854 666 334

Highland Stoneware Pottery
Lochinver
A modern, large-scale pottery making distinctive hand painted ceramics, including a shop, warehouse, and studios where you can watch the potters at work.
Tel: +44 (0)1571 844 376

Smoo Cave
Nr. Durness
The largest limestone cave in Britain; 200 feet long, 130 feet wide, and 50 feet high at the entrance. There is evidence the cave was in use by the earliest inhabitants of the district, some 6,000 years ago. Now, however, the interiors are floodlit so that you can explore the vast inner chambers on foot and by boat.
Tel: +44 (0)1971 511 259

Cape Wrath
The Cape is known as being the most northwesterly point of the British mainland and the 240º view is truly spectacular to behold. The lighthouse stands an impressive 121 metres above sea level and is well worth a visit, but can only be reached by ferry boat and then 12 miles by minibus, or on fo.....

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By Sally Toms

Section : Regional Focus

Page number : 38