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Day 97: Dunbeath to Lybster (10 miles)

With a long drive to get to Dunbeath, Martin and I set off for the day’s walk at 11am.   Walking away from the harbour and the impressive harbour house, and looking across to Dunbeath Castle, the path wrapped around the cliff corner to an attractive picnic area by the old herring processing house, and pebble beach before climbing steeply up to the cliff top. Within minutes we arrived at a spectacular geo, along with a sea stack and sea arch. Only a few minutes further and we came to another geo with two stacks. But that wasn’t all. Not in the least. The stacks were populated with fulmars and guillemots. And Martin pointed out a couple of birds just below us assuming them to be more guillemots. They weren’t - they were razorbills and we had a glorious view of them. But as I was taking photos and admiring them I spotted a puffin fly into the cliffs a little below them …. And then another.  To our absolute delight there was clearly a colony of puffins on the grassy slopes below u...