This is the Western Isles, known for Sabath observance.
Unsurprisingly the town was quiet, except for one part of town, the ferry port.
The ferry port was buzzing with passengers waiting for the ticket office to open and very aware that the "honesty shop" had a CCTV camera pointing at you as you picked a bag of crisps and can of juice out of the basket and deposited your money in the coin box.
Amongst other cyclists there both the weight of my bike and my prop stand had gathered some attention, and again everyone thought I was riding too heavy (you know they may just be right), the 2 yorkshire men we talked to were staying at Ullapool and then heading over to Inverness, which was part of my original thoughts but by the time we were at Ardvourlie we knew it wasn't going to be possible (not only due to knackeredness but the Inverness hostel was available on the Sunday night but not the Monday)
The sailing was fairly quiet and smooth and the crew went about their maintenance duties, the same crew member who loaded the vehicles onto the car deck could later be found painting the decks and serving coffee.
When we arrived in Ullapool we confirmed the bus times, we were booked onto the return journey of the Durness - Ullapool - Inverness bike bus that runs once a day and then took a wander round the village and into various shops.
James had bought a bag in Stornway which he packed his trailer and stuff into whiel we waited the last few minutes, eventually the bus arrived and took us over the muirs to Inverness via Dingwall.
In retrospec we shoudl have gone into the station and sorted out train tickets then but we didn't consider how busy Inverness was, and while I cycled up to the hostel James couldn't cycle with the trailer packed up so had to walk it.
We then headed into the city centre for a 2nd tea of pizza.
GPS Tracks:
Laxdale to Ferry
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/347798
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