48 miles today, running total is now 794
Thankfully a better day with the weather, we only had some light rain during the last hour’s run into Fort William.
Day started really well with the staff and their friends at Oban Youth Hostel giving Tommy £30 for his charity after hearing of his exploits from Lands End. The hostel was really fantastic – more like a 4* hotel than something for weary cyclists such as ourselves. The warden at Glen Nevis Hostel (where we are now) told us that the SYHA had spent £1.25M on refurbishing Oban Hostel: it was money well spent!
We set off around 9.45 with high cloud and the Island of Mull ferry just arriving at Oban harbour.
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| Watching the ferry arrive from Mull |
We cycled past some beautiful deserted beaches: this is not like beaches on the south coast!
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| The beach at Ganavan |
The first 30 miles were on purpose built cycle tracks that made very pleasant and safe cycling along sea lochs toward Fort William including passing a quintessential Scottish Castle and tommy spotted some seals basking on the sea rocks.
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| On the cycle path: check out the castle in the background |
A number of the sea lochs now have bridges over them that has cut the journey time northwards.
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| just cycled over Connel Bridge |
Tomorrow we cycle up the Great Glen crossing from the west coast of Scotland to the east coast to arrive at Inverness on Sunday
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