Day 5 At last the sun returned

Last day and only a short trip today.

We were awloken by the sound of the seaguls feeding the young ones. AT 4:30am AAAGGGHHH.
Thank fully they were moved on and we slept on until 7am
I treated bobby to scrambled eggs for breakfast which I felt was quite an achivement on a wee stove. Bobby was in charge of toast which he is becoming a dab hand at.
After much scrubbing of the pans (egg is tough to get off but worth the effort) we set about agtting ready for the days cycle, but hey we did not have to do any packing as we were coming back to the site today, result!!!
The bikes only had one panier and a handle bar bag. The bikes were so light we reconed we would be at Nesti point in no time. The weather was ok, cloudy but the wind was fairly light.
We set of in great spirits and the hit the first long hill and our muscles reminded us the we were on day 5 of the trip.
We struggerled along the road untill we came to the moumtain pass to get to Glendale. We it was very long and in places a 16% gradient (thats bleeping steep on a bike ;0) ). Once a the top there was an equaly steep decent in to the village. There were more hills but the climb up to the pass to get to the valley that Nesti point is at the end of was an othe steep one.
I would say the hills are extreem on that road.
At the pass we met a lovley couple in a camper van that we had bumped into on our travels and were currently staying at the same camp site. They offered to put the kettle on for us when they arrrived but we declined wanting to keep moving.
On arrival the sun was coming out and the wind had dropped right off. We elected to go left out of the carpark and up to the high clifs looking down to the point. It was beautiful. We stayied and had lumch midge free.
After lunch we carried our bags down the very steep steps and path to the light house. This tested already tired legs to the max as it is amazingly steep.
Once down to the light house we agreed it had been a silly thing to do but you only get one go at these things.
After a look around and watching the birds riding the winds against the cliffs we went back up to thre bikes.

We headed back and were amazed to see how many hills we had climbed to get there as we were. Now running down then.
Thw run back was quicker and we were on the camp site by 5pm. We sat at a picnic table and congratulated each other on another successful cycle tour completed.

Stats for the day
Total distance 22 miles
Average speed: 9.5 mph
Max speed : 33.2 mph
Cycle time : 2hrs 16mins
Total trip: 6hrs 30mins

We would like to that you all for following the exploits of two blokes on their bikes in Skye.
It has been a beautiful place to cycle round ( even nicer in the sun ;0) ) and we have met many people who have been very encoraging of our cycle and a thanks goes to those people to.

On to next years adventure, but that location is for Bobby to chose this time. It will be Bobbys 50th year so maybe some thing different.

I will try to post some of the pics that did not make the cut while we were traveling next week.

Signing off.

BOBBY and AL :0)