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West coast of Scotland near Reiff

Lucy Climbing Midreiff

Jim on Midreiff

Adrian on Midreiff

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

Wee beach at Levenwick Ness

Traffic control lights on the runway at Sumburgh Airport

Stopped on the runway for a quick photie

BA flight taking off

Sumburgh Head lighthouse

Guillemots eating and shitting all over the palce

Mr puffin who was very happy to pose for us!

Closeup of lighthouse

Oil workers heading out to the rigs

Oil workers headed home!

Cycling around the back of the Loch of Spiggie

Looking out west

Colsay Island to the right

Very straight road!

Bigton in the distance

Broch in middle of Lerwick

Views across the town from the hill at the back of the campsite

Back on the bikes and heading north

Splendid wee spot we found on South Yell at Burravoe Pier. Wild camping, but with access to a tap.

Headed across Yell via Mid Yell

View down towards Mid Yell

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

Away from it all houses on the way to the beach

Fantastic beach (better than those I sampled on Harris/North Uist in fact!)

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

I cycled up to the top of the Sava Vord radar station (now closed) for a butchers. Lucy admired the birds!

Shetland ponies on the road when we were heading back to the Ferry on Unst

The extremely cheap inter-island ferry service. Person+Bike: Â£3.20 for Mainland-Yell-Unst (ret).

Headed out to Northland

Rock with arch at Esha Ness

Esha Ness lighthouse

Esha Ness Cliffs

Must be some routes on these?!

Mini viking boat at Lerwick

Ditto - with the clouds putting on a show!

Lerwick Harbour

Views of Lerwick from the boat as we headed back towards Orkney

Sumburgh Head lighthouse

Masts and hulls from long sunken ships on Orkney

Lighthouse at Dunnet Head

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