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PORTMAHOMACK & FALLS OF SHIN DAY5
After breakfast we set off for a driver ,We decide that Portmahomack sounds like a cool place to visit. Weather was dull but dry.
Portmahomack is a tourist destination with its traditional harbour, swimming beach, golf, dolphin watching, fishing and other watersports. It has a permanent population of between 500 and 600 residents. In the former parish church the Tarbat Discovery Centre, designed by exhibition consultants Higgins Gardner & Partners, houses displays on local history, and many of the finds from several seasons of excavation within the church itself, and in the fields surrounding the churchyard.
Did you know ?
John Shepherd-Barron, the inventor of the ATM (Auto-Teller Machine), lived in the village until He died on 15 May 2010 after a brief illness at the age of 84 in Raigmore Hospital [Inverness].The murder-mystery writer Anne Perry lives in the village
After lunch we drive west to see the Falls of Shin.Weather is now wet wet wet .
The falls of shin are not too far from Dornoch and well worth a visit.
Great fun spotting the salmon leaping up the falls. Salmon can be seen anytime between
May and November. It is said the falls of Shin are one of the best place to see Salmon leaping. The salmon attempt to leap the falls because they are heading up river to breed, and to the place they themselves were born.
Falls of Shin Visitor Centre is about one hour's scenic drive north of Inverness and is well signposted from the A9. It is just off the B864 which is reached from A836 between Bonar Bridge and Lairg. There is plenty of easy parking at the centre