Chanonry Point

It was a mixed day weatherwise . Much milder, although it did nt really feel it as the wind had picked up, and most of the snow and ice has at last disappeared for the time being. Several heavy rain showers but the sun shone inbetween.
Mike took me down to the Point and while he was on calls I walked down the sandy path and round to the otherside . I knew that it would nt be long before the rain started again as the clouds were darkening over Fortrose and Rosemarkie. I stopped to photograph the large number of dunlin that were huddled or feeding on the shingle. a couple of ringed Plovers were also there. The tide was coming in so the birds had to keep flying back.
It was nt long until the rain started but the sun remained out and produced a lovely double rainbow.
You can see the lighthouse here and the stone monument has a plaque saying the following :
'This stone commemorates
the legend of Coinneach Odhar
better known as the
BRAHAN SEER
Many of the prophecies were fulfilled and tradition holds
that his untimely death by 
burning in tar followed is final
prophecy of the doom of the
house of Seaforth.

Lady Seaforth had not been pleased with a prediction made by the Brahan Seer , saying that ' Your husband is this moment with another who is fairer than yourself ' and immediately ordered that he was taken and thrown head first into a spiked barrel of boiling tar at Chanonry Point.
It is thought that he was born in Uig on the Isle of Lewis  and in his younger years, after falling a sleep on a fairy hill, he awoke to find a stone with a hole in the middle, an adder stone, through which he was able to see the future.
Many of his predications, like the battle of Culloden, the Caledonian canal and the Highland clearances did come true including the fall of the Seaforths.