If you are a diver, call along to the club hut on a Tuesday or Thursday evening at 6.00pm or on Sunday at 10.00am. Caithness Diving Club is about 40 years old. Dive routinely around the north-eastern corner of the UK. Club hut is in Thurso. They have dive sites on the north and east coasts of Caithness.
Scotland has many outstanding Scuba Diving sites where you can plan your next weekend or holiday trip. Diving has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Firstly this was in the form of free diving without any apparatus. Using hollow reeds as a snorkel and primitive goggles to create clearer underwater vision followed this.
A solitary sea stack, interesting topography causes the sea to run uphill, honest guvnor! Sheer cliffs plunge on through the waterline to level off at 20 m depth, nice big, short cave in the cliff. Launch at Scrabster. Heading out of Scrabster for Ushat Head the cliffs are spectacular. Stacks, caves, cuts and overhanging horizontal ledges. Seabirds everywhere.
A shallow spit of rock, split into channels (as in second picture), extending far out to sea. Can be shore dived from the farm. Dive on Calm days only, not days like in the picture!
Surf junkies lovingly refer to the point break as “the graveyard”.
In the 1930s a steamer, the Linkmore, blocked the harbour. Bits of the bow can still be seen at low tide, (see picture 2) the rudder leans against the rocky outcrop at 15 Metres. In between you will find what’s left of the middle. The engine sits just below the surface.
The Rabbit Islands
Bonnie Prince Charles was said to have lost a sailing ship, the "Hazard" on the Rabbit Islands! In 1745, a sailing ship carrying provisions and gold for the Prince ran aground here and the French Troops sent to recover them were captured by the Scots!
