Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights & Activities
Waterlines
(
01593-721520; The Harbour; adult/child £2.50/50p; 11am-5pm May-Sep)
At the
picturesque harbour in Lybster, this has an exhibition on the town's fishing heritage and a
popular downstairs cafe. In summer it operates a smokehouse (giving visitors a whiff of
the kippering process).
MUSEUM
HISTORIC SITE
Whaligoe Steps
At
Ulbster
, 5 miles north of Lybster on the A99, this staircase cut into the cliff face
provides access to a tiny natural harbour ringed by vertical cliffs and echoing with the
cackle of nesting fulmars. The path begins at the end of the minor road beside the tele-
phone box, opposite the road signposted 'Cairn of Get'. There's a cafe at the top and a
grassy area inviting picnics down below.
Cairn o'Get
The Cairn o'Get, a prehistoric burial cairn, is signposted off the road in Ulbster. It's a
mile's boggy walk from the car park.
HISTORIC SITE
Achavanich Standing Stones
Five miles to the northwest of Lybster, on the minor road to Achavanich, just south of
Loch Stemster, are the unsigned 30 Achavanich Standing Stones. In a desolate setting,
these crumbling monuments of the distant past still capture the imagination with their
evocative location.
HISTORIC SITE
Grey Cairns of Camster
Dating from between 4000 BC and 2500 BC, the Grey Cairns of Camster are burial cham-
bers hidden in long, low mounds rising from an evocatively desolate stretch of moor. The
Long Cairn measures 60m by 21m. You can enter the main chamber, but must first crawl
into the well-preserved Round Cairn, which has a corbelled ceiling.
From a turn-off a mile east of Lybster on the A99, the cairns are 4 miles north. From the
site you can continue 7 miles north on this remote road to approach Wick on the A882.
HISTORIC SITE
Hill o'Many Stanes
HISTORIC SITE
