West coast of Scotland near Reiff

Lucy Climbing Midreiff

Jim on Midreiff

Adrian on Midreiff

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St Ninnians Isle, joined to 'mainland' by sand spit

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Wee beach at Levenwick Ness

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Traffic control lights on the runway at Sumburgh Airport

Stopped on the runway for a quick photie

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BA flight taking off

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Sumburgh Head lighthouse

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Guillemots eating and shitting all over the palce

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Mr puffin who was very happy to pose for us!

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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