Day #9 - Into Lairg

Beautiful weather today - after hearing last night in the Ellis Brigham store in Fort William they have actually recorded a solid 8 months of days with rainfall - that we have now had 2 sunny, dry days makes me feel like we've been lucky with Scotland so far.

Rode along Loch Ness through Fort Augustus along some canal towpaths and saw the mist clear around Ben Nevis first thing.

Had an interesting chat with a guy, cool old-timer who used to build the oil rigs - he pointed out a load of them being stored in one of the Lochs; waiting until the crude price goes up sufficiently to support recommissioning them. Apparently it costs $250k a WEEK to store a single rig there. He looked dewy eyed when taking about the boom oil years. He was drinking red wine out of a miniature measure bottle though.

Final push to John O'Groats tomorrow - really looking forward to getting underway.