Caithness
& Sutherland
William Cameron came to
The Melvich Hotel
Portskerra is down the road to the left and the
Portskerra Pier from the Drownings Memorial with Melvich beach in the Background. The fishing industry is mostly gone from here now but there are still a few boats and a few fisherman carrying on the tradition. Looks peaceful now but many men died, caught in storms in the bay, within sight of their homes.
"The Portskerra Drownings"
"Erected to the memory of the men"
"Who were of this community and who"
"Perished within sight of their homes"
Free
Church at Strathy
.
Tombstone for William Cameron born 1865, died 1931
and his wife Elizabeth Macintosh born 1868
died 1955.
Lends
meaning to the phrase "rest in peace"
Strathy Point from