The Earl of Caithness has helped the company to raise the £20m.
Malcolm Sinclair, a Tory peer and the Earl of Caithness, said the referendum had been "divisive, destructive and distracting".
And we went on to spy stacked lobster cages in Portgower, the immense open expanses of Sutherland away to our left, and endless walls of Caithness flagstone.
He studied the Old Red Sandstone (Devonian strata), the boulder clay of Caithness, and the Carboniferous plants (about 299 million to 359 million years old) of Scotland.
The Orkney Islands – there are 70 of them – are a low-lying cluster just off the north-east tip of Caithness, accessible by ferry from Thurso or Aberdeen, or by air from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness.
But about this time it emerged that infighting had developed in the Conservative party in the Tory-held constituency of Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of Scotland.
11.47am GMT Liberal Democrat MP John Thurso is next, and tries to expose the flaws in Scottish independence (he represents the Scottish constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross).
Mackay, a postman for more than 44 years, is honoured for his dedication to delivering mail to the Bettyhill area of Caithness, said to be one of the most challenging rounds in the Highlands.
A sharp right-hand turn by the John O'Groats' farm shop turns us south for the first time, and the A99 threads through the lonely, vast moors of Caithness.
The bride's father is an executive vice president and a managing director of Caithness Development, a company in New York that develops, owns and operates power-generating facilities throughout the United States.
Home to the Bishop of Caithness and the Earl of Sutherland, it was set alight during a clan feud, then turned into a school, a jail, a courthouse, and a hunting lodge before becoming a hotel in the mid-20th century.
