DOVER TO CAPE WRATH
27th July - 4th August 1987
             

Day 10: Durness - Cape Wrath - 15.5miles. ( >>> Lairg 68.3 miles).
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We got up early to get to the ferry as soon as possible. Our plan was to get to Cape Wrath by 11am, and then cycle back to Lairg to get a train to Glasgow.
We were lucky, as despite a large crowd of people waiting to get on the tiny fibreglass boat which was the ferry, we were taken across first, and were soon climbing the bumpy track on the 11 last miles to the lighthouse.
As a final gesture the wind howled into our already chapped faces, whipping up some rain aswell, but nothing could stop us getting the last few miles, and soon we rounded the headland and found ourselves at the most North Westerly point in mainland Britain.

Cape Wrath ferry arriving
The Cape Wrath Ferry - Kyle of Durness.

Boarding Cape Wrath Ferry Mind the gap!

Cape Wrath Challenge Certificate (CTC)

Cape Wrath Fellowship

The weather had been defeated, and it was somewhat bizzare, as we stood near the lighthouse capes dripping wet, feeling windswept, the skies quickly cleared and the sun came out.
We didn't go into the lighthouse ( which we later discovered had a record book where we could have listed our ride! - never mind this website proves we were there!) as we were wet and cold, so after taking all our souvenir photos we sped back to the ferry with the wind on our our tails, and got blown almost all the way to Lairg.
It wasn't really until we were sat on the Glasgow train, and we relaxed that it sunk in that we'd done it, before we drifted off to sleep!

Graham Brodie & Jackie Lofty at Cape Wrath Lighthouse
At the lighthouse - and skies cleared!

Graham Brodie & John Matthews at Cape Wrath Lighthouse
The Dover - Cape Wrath ride raised well over
£1300 which was given to the Kidney Unit in Exeter.

DOVER - CAPE WRATH 87


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Stage 1 , Dover to Saffron WaldenStage 2, Saffron Walden to LincolnStage 3, Lincoln to OsmotherlyStage 4, Osmotherly to ByrnessStage 5, Brness to GlendevonStage 6, Glendevon to Fort WilliamStage 7, Fort William to AchnashellachStage 8, Achnashellach to UllapoolStage 9, Ullapool to ByrnessStage 10, Byrness to Cape Wrath


 
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