Day 13 Inverness to Crask

Relatively short day today (66 miles) that was always going to be difficult to match up to yesterday's weather and scenery. We left Inverness under leaden skies with a distinctive autumnal feel to the air. Following NCN cycleway number 1 we headed out over the Kessock Bridge for Dingwall, The Struthie and Bonar Bridge. Tired legs made hard work of the first 40 miles to our lunch break obviously suffering a backlash after the high speed and hill climbing activity the previous day but we still thought the score was Nick & Gareth 1 - General Wade 0 ! Fortified by soup and a butty we headed out toward Loch Shin and Lairg before a final slow ascent across desolate moorlands to our evening stop in Crask Enjoyed the "rustic" charms of the Crask Inn before retiring to the Bunkhouse for a disturbed night's sleep worring about the howling gale blowing outside and hoping that the forcast of 30mph headwinds and heavy rain for tomorrow was going to be wrong !