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A few years ago we went to Orkney thinking we would stay for 2 nights then continue back on the mainland around the north coast down the west to Fort William then home to Stonehaven.
It is only about 18 miles to the main camp site in Kirkwall from our door, that is if you take the ferry from Aberdeen, and it worked out cost effective for us to do that.
If you travel to Orkney and stay for any length of time I am sure you will want to go visit the ancient historic sites, we found it was cheaper to pay for a yearly membership to Historic Scotland, you get the discount in the gift shops/coffee shops & all entry fees are included.
Obviously you need to do your homework on the cost for yourselves but it has saved us a fortune. I think Skara Brae is one of the more expensive sites to visit.
It also helps if you want to visit other sites on the mainland, and we were told at Hadrians Wall which I think is English Heritage we would get a discount on the entry fee with our Historic Scotland card.

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All of the Independent Hostels web links have changed, so I've updated the waypoints to reflect this, added another 46 waypoints with more campsites, and created more routes.
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Mealt Waterfall (Kilt Rocks), Isle of Skye

More waypoints, more routes added to link on post #1

286 waypoints in total including 33 campsites and 67 hostels and bunkhouses

My most recent trip was from Oban to Barra in the Outer Hebrides, then island hopping north to Harris which has to be my favourite island, then over to Skye where (as ever) the skies opened and buckets of water were thrown at me.

Edit: you can no longer easily get to the viewpoint above which has been closed off due to cliff falls. There's a stopping place a little to the north where you can see the Kilt Rocks, but not the waterfall.
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The photo above is one of only 25 places in the world where the water from a waterfall goes directly into the sea. One of the other 25 is on the Big Sur in California.

I updated the files after my last trip and since then gave a presentation at the French Horizons Unlimited meeting on the wonders of northern Scotland and the Isles. For a joke I started off the presentation in the most atrocious schoolboy French, but quickly reverted to English which was simultaneously translated to French.
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