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Ferries to Orkney
www.jogferry.co.uk - John o'Groats Ferries run a daily passenger ferry service from John o'Groats to Orkney from May until September. Tours of Orkney combined with the ferry crossing are available.
www.pentlandferries.co.uk - Pentland Ferries run a car ferry service from Gills Bay (a few miles west of John o'Groats) to St Margaret's Hope in Orkney.
www.northlinkferries.co.uk - North Link Ferries run a car ferry service from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness in Orkney.
Accommodation
www.Caithness.org - Caithness Community Web site.
www.syha.org.uk - SYHA John o'Groats Youth Hostel
www.scotland-info.co.uk - Caithness and Sutherland Information.
www.internet-promotions.co.uk - Backpackers Hostel & Budget Accommodation.
www.travelaccommodation.co.uk - Visit TravelAccommodation.co.uk for information about hotels, guest houses, activities, etc in the Far North and elsewhere.
www.scotland-inverness.co.uk - Accommodation, travel, etc information for the North of Scotland.
www.georgesons.co.uk - website set up by a local law firm.
Caithness
www.seumasb.com - Thurso Music Shop, In 1999 Seumas took over the long established music shops in Wick and Thurso belonging to the Shearer family and runs them as general music stores with obviously a degree of local product that draws on the areas rich musical heritage. The business is now online to a offer wide selection of music with an emphasis on the sounds of the North of Scotland. Being an all round store however means that they offer anything from Scottish, Celtic and Folk to Country & Western, Rock and Pop music. Also stocked is a large range of musical instruments.
www.caithness.org - Caithness words and meanings.
www.highlandeye.co.uk - Local photographer Keith Parkes' website. Wildlife & Landscape Photography In the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Wedding Photographywww.caithnessfm.co.uk - Caithness FM's Local Radio Station's Web Page.
www.castleofmey.org.uk - HM The Queen Mother owned the Castle of Mey a few miles east from John o'Groats and visited regularly until her death in 2002. The castle is now open to the public from May until October.
Water Sports
www.caithnessdivingclub.co.uk - Caithness Diving Club (formerly Thurso Sub Aqua Club) is Branch 119 of the British Sub Aqua Club and is based in Thurso. They can give advice on local diving (some of the best in the UK!!) and cylinders can be filled by arrangement.
www.pfyc.org.uk - Pentland Firth Yacht Club, sail in Thurso Bay, located at Scrabster Harbour.
www.pentlandcanoeclub.org.uk - Pentland Canoe Club
http://www.britsurf.co.uk/ - British Surfing Association
Wildlife
www.bdmlr.demon.co.uk - British Divers Marine Life Rescue is a marine mammal charity, set up in the aftermath of the outbreak of seal distemper in the late 1980's. The charity is dedicated to the protection of marine mammals and undertakes rescues of orphaned seal pups, beached cetaceans, etc.
whale.wheelock.edu - Whalenet Internet Resources.
www.abdn.ac.uk - Eurosquid-Marine Mammal Home Page.
www.tethys.org - Tethys Research Institute, This Site contains more cetacean, etc links than you could shake a stick at!!.
www.wdcs.org - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
www.wildlifeweb.co.uk - The Wildlife Web is maintained by Grampian & Cairngorms Wildlife Services. This web site is a resource for birders and wildlife enthusiasts in, or visiting, Scotland. Created in 1990, it is one of the longest running and most used web resources of its kind. A thousand birders a week visit the website!!.
www.rspb.org.uk - The bird life on the cliffs and islands in the Pentland Firth is incredible in the high summer. Find out more about birds and birdwatching at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds website
