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- Lighthouse at Dunnet Head
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- Masts and hulls from long sunken ships on Orkney
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- Kirkwall
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- Fair Isle
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- Sumburgh Head lighthouse
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- Views of Lerwick from the boat as we headed back towards Orkney
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- Lerwick Harbour
- Ditto
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- Ditto - with the clouds putting on a show!
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- Mini viking boat at Lerwick
- Must be some routes on these?!
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- Esha Ness Cliffs
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- Esha Ness lighthouse
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- Rock with arch at Esha Ness
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- Headed out to Northland
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- Shetland ponies on the road when we were heading back to the Ferry on Unst
- The extremely cheap inter-island ferry service. Person+Bike: £3.20 for Mainland-Yell-Unst (ret).
- I cycled up to the top of the Sava Vord radar station (now closed) for a butchers. Lucy admired the birds!
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- The infamous Unst bus shelter
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- Sign at ferry on getting onto Unst (UK's most northerly isle - providing we are not counting 10 metre long lumps of rock!)
- Baltasound - where someone was getting married (woman in post office was shutting up shop to attend!)
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- Me and Loops with the beach to ourselves
- Fantastic beach (better than those I sampled on Harris/North Uist in fact!)
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- Away from it all houses on the way to the beach
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- Knackered Loopster
- North Yell. We took the wee road North from the ferry in search of a beach for lunch
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- Beach at Mid Yell
- Me And Loops On Pier
- Headed across Yell via Mid Yell
- View down towards Mid Yell
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- Burravoe Pier
- Splendid wee spot we found on South Yell at Burravoe Pier. Wild camping, but with access to a tap.
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- Back on the bikes and heading north
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- Broch
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- Views across the town from the hill at the back of the campsite
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- Bigton in the distance
- Broch in middle of Lerwick
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- Very straight road!
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- Looking out west
- Colsay Island to the right
- Cycling around the back of the Loch of Spiggie
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- Oil workers headed home!
- Closeup of lighthouse
- Oil workers heading out to the rigs
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- More bird poo
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