At Toy Ness

If I'd known it was going to be such a beautiful day I'd have got up earlier! Frost, ice on lochans and a dusting of snow on the Hoy hills, yet warm enough to make me lose a layer. I walked from Orphir village down the Gyre road to The Breck and east to the old pier at Toy Ness, coffee there, then west along the shore path to The Bu and the road to Houton.