WE had left the pleasant uplands of Glen Shee for the sands, the waves, the bracing breezes of Nairn — and to our dismay Nairn was full already. We had then turned our eyes to the varied coast line opposite, stretching away for league upon league toward the Orkneys, and had resolved to try Tain. We had found Tain peaceful and pic turesque — but alas! Its shores were not for the feet of the paddler or the spade of the digger, and so we had sped northward still, to Golspie.