After another unsuccessful look for puffins, we left and drove west along the NC500 to Bettyhill. Scott had been there on a geography school trip back in the 1970s and it was interesting to see the field centre was still there.
We checked out our proposed wild camping spot for later and it seemed ok. So we drove on a few minutes further and parked for our walk.
This was a circular walk from Invernaver up over a hill to Torrisdale beach, then back down the River Naver to the start. From the top of the hill we started to see the beach, then walked towards it over sand dunes.
The beach was quite spectacular, with lots of clean sand and interesting rocky outcrops. It was quite windy so we sheltered by the rocks for our lunch.
We walked back along the beach and river. There were lots of mounds on the land there, some of which were supposed to be burial mounds but there was no obvious evidence of that.
As we walked past the buildings at Invernaver there were a couple of peacocks.
We went back to Bettyhill and parked up for the night. Just down from the parking space is a tiny cove.
To start with we were parked on our own, but over the course of the evening a few more vans joined us. We had tuna pasta for dinner.
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