Day 10

An eventful day. The wind was behind us as we set off along the great glen past lochs Lochy (does that sound like it was named by a 4 year old?), Oich and Ness. Sadly no monster sitings. We covered nearly 45km in the first 90 minutes but were rudely awakened by a 2km 15 % climb out of Drumnadrochit which gained us 250m in just over a mile. This was probably the hardest climb since Dartmoor and nearly beat me, but it didn't. Our reward was a fantastic 14km rolling descent through a drumlin field (for students of glacial geomorphology. For those who don't know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumlin_field) averaging 50kph all the way. Nature's rollercoaster and grin inducing indeed. After lunch we rolled on past the seals on the Moray Firth before another long 15km climb and fantastic view of our destination at Bonar Bridge (look it up on google maps!). Sadly Beth took one look at the hotel and walked out. It was disgustingly dirty, but we found a lovely b&b just up the road.
2 days to go. Tomorrow we pass through the most sparsley poulated part of Europe home of red deer and ospreys. I can't wait.