Someone has been refreshing the paint on this declaration in the middle of the Dava Moor road for at least seventy years! I wonder how many, distracted by the sign, have driven off the road on the sharp bend which follows!

Dava Way Section III - Dava to Grantown, 8 miles, completed today, so the full 24 miles done now in three segments, since January 3rd. IT was an overcast morning with occasional light drizzle. Probably the most interesting section of the Dava Way, although no huts with free Quality Street along this part of it! Jet was convinced the Redcoat returning from Culloden was a mortal threat to us, and spent several minutes doing her stuff, with threatening growls and pre-attack barking, calming down only slightly when "mummy" was obviously brave enough to stand beside him! We did a slight detour to visit Huntly's Crag and cave, overlooking a deep ravine, and climbed up to the Dreggie waterfall above Grantown, towards the end of the walk, marching into Grantown in time to be driven for lunch at the Muckrach Country House Hotel - and very good it was too...