Look at the busy scene in front of you. As the fishing fleet grew, so did the harbour. It began life as the fishing village of Faithlie. Then the village was acquired by the Fraser family in the sixteenth century and the town expanded from there.

Three hundred years later, the great breakwater was built to stave off the North Sea storms. You'll see it curving round the harbour. It soon became known as the Balaklava quay - a reference to the 'thin red line' of British troops that stemmed the enemy's advance during the Crimean War.

By the end of the nineteenth century, hundreds of trawlers landed their herring catch here. Skilled women gutted the fish and salted them in huge barrels for export all over Britain. Today, fewer but much larger vessels land mainly white fish.

You'll see more of the harbour at Stop 8. On the way to Stop 6, look for the row of eighteenth-century town houses in Castle Street.