Lejog day 18 bettyhill to john o'groats

Not enough superlatives for today. Perfect weather with sunshine all day and only a light easterly. A bit odd heading eastwards into the sun as we climbed out of bettyhill after so many days of heading north. Great road with views out to sea and orkney and back to the sutherland mountains. A decent stretch of cyclists fantasy tarmac into melvic. The road was surfaced dressed in the centre but there was a 50cm strip of the smoothest tarmac of the trip. Ace. The country got progressively flatter as we neared thurso where we had scotch and macaroni pies for lunch. Bit of a drag to dunnet before we went out to the headland. See blog photo below. Not many people will have had as northerly a pee as me! Best pee view yet. The remaining 15 miles passed quickly enough although we had a false dawn at a village a mile short but finally got to jog and met dad down by the harbour. A few photos but it didnt feel like the end. Mad photo booth man chipped in that it was really hilly and rubbish to duncansby head but he was only trying to protect jog as the end. We cycled back through jog village and headed to the real end at the lighthouse. It felt much more fitting and the surprise little hill was a suitable final hurdle. The pentland firth looked mediterranean and the sea stacks impressive. Finally we could stop peddling. Woo! distance 100.00 (cos i cycled round the carpark twice to make it so) average 15.5 kph cumulative 1589km