Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet Dry

As it says, bit of wet, bit of dry and a bit of sun today. Showers & sunny intervals is what the weather man would say.

Leaving the bunkhouse on Skye

Looked promising leaving Skye, top up with fuel at the co-op (refill in Alan's case) and via the bridge heading for Applecross, but just as we're stopping for a cuppa & breakfast bun at the Locharron Golf Club tea room it chucks it down - timing is everything.
After egg baps & coffees all round we're off and up the pass to Applecross - plan is to get to the top then go back down again the  way we came and head over to Torridon and make our way to Ullapool and then Lochinver.

Top of pass towards Applecross

 It was good weather all the way along the road to Shieldaig and on to Torridon. Very clear and you could see for miles, so the scenery was at its best. Stop again for a break and a brew at the café in Torridon village, Al goes further along the road to the Alligin Shuas viewpoint as he's not been along that road before. You can see it snaking up the hillside across the loch from the other viewpoint on the A696 - the other three decide to stay in the café for cream cakes - either no sense of adventure or already know that Loch Torridon looks the same whatever side you look at it from!!


Loch Torridon from the A696 side.......

....and looking back from the other side near Alligin Shuas

After those extra few miles, Al needs a sit down but the others are ready for moving on after gorging on tea & cream cakes at the café in Torridon..

Weather still good & dry so a few more miles and stopped in Poolewe to have another break. Riding round & staring at the scenery is thirsty work and we ended up in this another café, this time at the Bridge Cottage Café. Looked good to sit outside but a shower drives us indoors. Nice little café, but pretty cramped indoors with all our clobber.

 

Just after squeezing out of the Bridge café in Poolewe

 More scenery beckons and the executive decision is made to crack on to Ullapool where we shall partake of an ice cream before heading further north to the B&B at Lochinver.  To be honest it was more like a hostel than a good B&B. Very dated - shower and toilet were shared between at least three rooms, but the owner was a friendly guy, we had a cooked breakfast and no real drama to be fair. Its just that we were expecting a B&B!!! Sometimes when booking on the web you get some good ones and not so good ones.
Couple of pints in the pub down the road and some dinner then to bed wishing for more dri-ish weather in the morning.

Ice cream time in Ullapool