We started out at 7:15 am, in the rain. We cannot complain as it truly hasn’t rained too much for our trip. On Monday night, while sleeping cozily inside, it rained all night. This created swollen rivers overnight which meant about five river crossing for us. The first crossing we removed our boots and socks and waxed across. The rest we managed as best we could to cross through shallow rocks and jumping, needless to say, once we stopped for lunch we switched to dry socks. We ate at Char bothy- a bonus to have shelter to eat. We met up with Steve from Aberdeen, this is his second crossing, his first was 35 years ago. We had a great day walking all the way to inside the forest’s edge where we are camping.
We had a cell signal for a few minutes as we passed below the wind farm. We quickly chatted to Jm and Ken and sent Ben a birthday text.
We were zonked today as it was about a 30km day. Once we had survived an earlier shower we were treated to a few more hours of rain. We set up the tent and beds and made dinner and jumped into the tent at 7pm, I think Kir was asleep instantly, I wish I had her superpower of falling asleep in 5 nanoseconds in the tent! I have gained access to The Wrong Highlander novel so I was awake a bit longer. At 11pm the rain has stopped, a quick washroom break and we are back to bed.
It is hard to believe we are on the eve of finishing! We are excited but sad too. Stay tuned for pictures of the finish!!! Thanks for reading. Nighty night
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