{"id":1364,"date":"2026-05-12T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:20:10","slug":"day-3-baile-an-or-to-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/day-3-baile-an-or-to-wick\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Baile an Or to Wick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Started off with sun and then a heavy shower before we left Baile an Or for Wick. First stop, Berridale Harbour with its folly, rickety suspension bridge and row of old fisher cottages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up, Dunbeath Harbour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latheron Wheel was the final ‘harbour’ theme location for the day. Spot the van competition again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harbours done. Walligoe steps was next in line. The cove was used in the past to deliver herring to the local community; the fishermen would arrive and unload to the women who would carry the fish loads back to the top. All 309 steep steps to the top…!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just got back to the top before the next hail storm landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a brief lunch stop in the van, the Old Pulteney Distillery was our next target where ‘some items’ were bought \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old Castle of Wick was not on the original schedule, but squeezed in to kill a bit of time for our check-in at Wick Riverside Campsite. The wind must have been blowing a steady 40-odd mph so we didn’t hang about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, we rolled into Wick and the Riverside Campsite. An immaculate site with fantastic facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Started off with sun and then a heavy shower before we left Baile an Or for Wick. First stop, Berridale Harbour with its folly, rickety suspension bridge and row of old fisher cottages: Next up, Dunbeath Harbour: Latheron Wheel was the final ‘harbour’ theme location for the day. Spot the van competition again: Harbours done. … Continue reading “Day 3: Baile an Or to Wick”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nc500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nc500.madaxeamps.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}