It is a popular place for anglers with Loch Naver and Loch Eribol being its closest good quality fishing lochs. Mountaineerers can enjoy the summits of Ben Hope and Ben Klibreck too.
It's recent fame was attributed to the weather extremes , having a Met Office weather station it recorded the the UK's coldest temperature at -27.2 C , but also the warmest in the UK for March at 18.5 C