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The club had booked into a small cluster of about 5 wooden log built chalets at Duirinish, a sleepy hamlet of cottages, some still with the old fashioned corrugated tin roofs. Sheep still wander freely amongst the cottages and on the streets. It lies a couple of miles from the small town of Plockton, along a narrow road with passing places.

Plockton, which is about 10 miles from Kyle, is perhaps one of the most picturesque villages in Scotland, famous for its palm trees, warm waters and coral beaches, a product of the warming Gulf stream that runs along the west coast of Scotland. Plockton consists mainly of several rows of houses and a couple of hotels which are strung along a picturesque small sea loch - and boasts its very own small island just 200 yards off the main sea frontage. This island dries out at low water allowing locals, tourists and the local free range Highland cows to walk out to it and explore. From time to time the cows get temporarily trapped on the island as the tide comes back in.