Caithness Calendar 2005

We publish calendars annually of the following areas: Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles and Caithness. The calendars are 23x23cm with 12 pictures plus cover. As usual the calendars are widely available in each area, but may be ordered direct, either via email charles.tait@zetnet.co.uk, telephone or fax. Retail price is £4.50 per calendar plus UK postage and packing of £1. Overseas post and packaging is extra at cost (US, Canada and Australia $10US including airmail). Payment by Visa or Mastercard is preferred. We can also send calendars directly to friends or relatives if you wish.

Prints are available from all of the images on this site.



January  Dunbeath has an attractive small harbour and was the birthplace of the author Neil Gunn.

February Mary-Ann's Cottage, Dunnet has hardly altered since it was built 150 years ago. It features a wealth of family history and original box-beds plus many machines and implements.

March The yellow flowers of Whin (Gorse) colour the roadsides in springtime. Caithness flags were often used to makes dykes.

April The present Dunnet Kirk dates from the 16th century and is built on the site of a much older chapel.

May  Primula scotica only grows on the coasts of Caithness, Suthland and Orkney. It was recently voted to be the Caithness flower.

June Sandside Harbour lies to the west of Reay and overlooks Dounreay and Sandside Beach. Spring Squill gives the banks a blue tinge in spring.

July Atlantic Puffin can be seen at various places around the coast in summer. Dunnet Head and Duncansby Head are good places to look.

August Duncansby Stacks are to the south of Duncansby Head. The spectacular cliff scenery is enlivened in spring and summer by many wild flowers and breeding birds.

September NorthLink ferry MV "Hamnavoe" leaving the new pier at Scrabster on her way to Stromness.

October The Fifie, "Isabella Fortuna" WK499, was launched in 1890 and was used by the same Arbroath family for 76 years. She has been renovated by the Wick Society.

November Sinclair & Girnigoe Castles are spectacularly situated on Noss Head near Wick. Girnigoe dates from the 15th century while Sinclair was added in the 17th. It was destroyed and abandoned in 1690.

December Lybster Harbour - village very closely connected to the fishing industry. Once over 100 boats sailed in and out of the harbour. Lybster was the third largest herring port in Scotland after Wick and Fraserburgh.