Today's route can be found here.
We started the day from the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge where we had finished yesterday.
Occasional rain showers and a very blustery wind to start. At least it wasn't hammering down with rain as it had done in the middle of the night!
The first part of the route is downhill towards Loch Lochy and Invergarry. Then following the A82 north eastwards along the side of the lochs.
The guys made good time to Fort Agustus where they met a cyclist who had spent some time cycling around Ireland, was now spending a couple of weeks in Scotland before taking the ferry over to Denmark and heading back home to Lithuania! He had all of his camping kit with him and made our little jaunt with support seem very trivial!
Heading up the side of Loch Ness (keeping an eye out for Nessie) we made our lunch stop in Drumnadrochit and after looking at the maps and talking to another cyclist we decided to continue alongside Loch Ness all the way to Inverness and then see if we could push on to Alness some 20 miles further on.
When the team met up just before the North Kessock bridge it transpired that Karl may have been lucky enough to get a photo of Nessie so we will upload this to our Gallery along with some other recent shots for you to make your own minds up.
The side wind on the Kessock bridge was really hard work to cycle through having to lean the bikes into the wind just to stay in a straight line. The radio reports mentioned closures and restrictions on a number of major bridges in Scotland.
The A9 lived up to it's reputation of being very busy (we did reach it just around the evening rush hour though).
We eventually made it to our planned stop at Alness and managed to load the bikes onto the car just before a major rain storm which lasted until we reached our B&B accommodation at Muir of Ord.
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