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More bird poo
Closeup of lighthouse
Oil workers heading out to the rigs
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Oil workers headed home!
Cycling around the back of the Loch of Spiggie
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Looking out west
Colsay Island to the right
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Very straight road!
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Bigton in the distance
Broch in middle of Lerwick
Views across the town from the hill at the back of the campsite
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Broch
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Back on the bikes and heading north
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Splendid wee spot we found on South Yell at Burravoe Pier. Wild camping, but with access to a tap.
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Burravoe Pier
Headed across Yell via Mid Yell
View down towards Mid Yell
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Beach at Mid Yell
Me And Loops On Pier
Knackered Loopster
North Yell. We took the wee road North from the ferry in search of a beach for lunch
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Away from it all houses on the way to the beach
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Fantastic beach (better than those I sampled on Harris/North Uist in fact!)
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Me and Loops with the beach to ourselves
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!)
The infamous Unst bus shelter
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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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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).
Headed out to Northland
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Rock with arch at Esha Ness
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Esha Ness lighthouse
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Esha Ness Cliffs
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Must be some routes on these?!
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Mini viking boat at Lerwick
Ditto - with the clouds putting on a show!
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Lerwick Harbour
Ditto
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Views of Lerwick from the boat as we headed back towards Orkney
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Sumburgh Head lighthouse
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Fair Isle
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Kirkwall
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Masts and hulls from long sunken ships on Orkney
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