Thursday was forecast to be a nice day and I had a plan. Taking a camera with me I was going to go cycling, north from Aviemore to explore some remote lanes heading up in to a glen near Tomatin.
I wasn't going that far, well that was the plan anyway.
I passed through Carrbridge with it's famous bridge and soon reached Tomatin. This is when things changed, I decided it was too nice a day to stop here, and headed on towards Inverness. There is a lovely if rather winding cycle route up to Inverness and new plan was to jump the train back to Aviemore. As I was dropping out of the mountains on the approach to Inverness, I thought, no I haven't gone far enough yet. So instead of heading west, I turned east. I hadn't cycled that way before but I had a rough idea that there was a network of lanes that would bring me across to the main road between Nairn and Grantown on Spey and from there I knew the way back to Aviemore. I managed that without getting lost and after fighting a strong headwind whilst climbing a long drag back up into the mountains, finally dropped back down into Carrbridge and on to Aviemore.
A great day out, but at just over 70 miles rather further than I had planned.
Needless to say, I didn't take many photographs along the way, so the rest of todays posts are from the Highland Wildlife Park............
What a wonderful old bridge and a great shot of it and the stream. Congrats to you on the long haul bike trip. Hope your muscles aren't to mad at you today.
