Henrikdoc

Completely overawed by the generous support and encouragement for this adventure. Over £1850 including gift aid raised so far for WPCC . Thank you everyone for your regular wishes and words of encouragement, as well as your generosity.

So I have a resourceful, wise, prudent wife (Proverbs29:14) who, while I’m busy negotiating some of the A9 and a housing estate as Gloria and Glenda go AWOL again, goes to Halfords in Inverness, buys an adapter and gets the cool box working via the cigarette lighter circuit 👏👏👏. 

Looking good at the start of the morning

Today was another dry sunny day in Scotland. A flat route across 3 Firths (Moray, Cromarty, Donorch) that brought more and more dramatic coastal scenery around each corner. 

Across the Moray Firth and into a housing estate as Gloria and Glenda could not sort out the cycle route 1 from the “no cyclists allowed on dual carriage way “, from the stupidity of 2 aged LEJOGGERS🤪

Lunch stop near Alness where 2 photography enthusiasts were searching for dragonflies near the pond (sorry , no photo of them , but managed to get a few of the buttercups instead for your delight

And onward up the NC500. Such smooth tarmac, so few lorries today ( it’s Sunday). We powered on with lots of through’s and off’s as the 2 man breakaway kept their lead off the imaginary peloton about 5 minutes behind them. Decided after 20 km of this game to have another pit stop.

Arrived in Brora after 5 hours of cycling. What a delightful village

Even managed to see a Golden Eagle 🤦‍♂️

Campsite is in an old wartime telecoms station which on first arrival looks a bit off putting but Iain, whose family bought the land in 1986 was delightful.

Facilities absolutely fine and sea views from everywhere

Carol and I went for beach walk after supper and found some fat seals basking in the late evening sun, having spotted them from our “dedicated” plots

Managed to get a Heron in too

So at the end of another day in the saddle ….

…. We look forward to the final leg tomorrow .

(You realise it’s time to get back to human civilisation when you cycle past the Highland Cows and moo at them EVERY TIME 😂🚴‍♀️😂🚴‍♀️😂)