 morning after a decent night's kip it is it's just chilled out a little bit now but it's been pissing it down it's all us a bit of a nightmare getting out of bed when you're when it's raining and I was just thinking then to myself I sometimes I get signals and I'll post a little photo on Instagram and I was looking at the photos I was like actually look it looks idyllic like I'm just having a real relaxed time of my life you do but you don't see the blisters and the ticks and the midges and the rain and the wind and then you know all the other stuff you just don't see it here and that's in the subgram I guess but yeah the thought of putting like wet socks on and getting out there where it is just brutal it's a long day today so I might as get my head down and just get it done get the miles done right let's get up and get on with it when I use half of it for one of my meals because I'm bonking and then half of it I'm gonna have a cup of coffee as well and I'm gonna push on it's been one of the hardest days so far I'm not doing much filming because it's just been pissing it down with rain but I've put the miles in today and I'm gonna have this I have something to eat and a coffee the cloud I still pretty bleak up there but it's not it stopped raining so I'm gonna push on maybe see if I could even do a 25 mile day today yeah I've not been doing much of this today because it's too much rain and my head had gone I just put my head down and get on with it but I've made good time and I'm gonna keep going I'm gonna do a long I'm just gonna keep going till it gets dark don't know what that means for tomorrow it it just means the next couple of days are easier days if I put a shift in today and then I can see the finish line I reckon I'm gonna do it I reckon I'm gonna get there unless I fall over or something mad I think I can handle the pain of my feet it hurts but I can handle it I can handle me knee just kicking my ass today I was Scotland real talk but yeah I'm bonking a little bit a bit of food I'm gonna have a strong coffee yeah and then baton and baton hopefully rain holds off for a little bit now it's dried up see you vegetable hot pot yes please this is gonna give me a second week of third wind I'm not gonna do two sections in one day but if I can do a section and a half especially these two these two are big sections as well then I'm but I'm made up then did I tell you the the mini but they mini bus isn't running from the lighthouse so I've got one I get once I get to the end of there's still an 11 mile hike to the to the foot not feeling talking to you lot of afraid today's kicked my ass you can see why people tap out I'll say that for now and I'll be honest with you the thought of tapping out today was so tempting so tempting me just a thought of like oh let's just tap out can't do it you know the old footsie was hurting a little bit and weather was terrible and I fell over twice and both were just there was no dignity in it really I made a little noise I only think it was a little noise I think it was more of a whale like that and you go down you man down right do you know what I shouldn't really I told myself I won't just come on here just to complain because negativity it spreads and was out when I was there when I served in the yeah when I was in the power rangers we would it was at zero negativity because it spreads throughout the ranks even if things are shit you're just stiff up a lip it's good we're rocking let's go because it you know negativity breeds negativity and now which is one of the reasons why I haven't been speaking to the camera because I didn't want to be just log on and be like this is a cat do it I'm struggling anyway but here I go I'm doing it now when you have these on you have you have these this bit like wrapped around your wrist like that and I've dropped it bending down so I just I sort of slipped and went down in my these these are stuck in ground these are stuck in ground and I sort of went down like that but my arms are still like half in knees and just look like some Mads Scarecrow like that you know I mean like that blub bit lip was going killed me mate killed me and so I when I was going over these gnarly bits I just ditched the hoops and then so second fall was just a it was a sleep and then I just sort of gave up and like rolled a little bit because we bag on and stuff you just it is what it is just like they're feeling like an absolute idiot look around is anyone looking no because there's no one for miles so yeah today's been a kick in the dick I've probably done over 20 miles feeling like I would love to go in the woods there but we you for how wild and wonderful the Hines of Scotland is there's not a great deal of woodland camps to be had because it's a lot of these plantations so everything's just crammed so close together and it's so dangling it's so wet right I need to deploy my Scarecrow support units because many hurts when I'm going down hill so there you one last look cute mate so you what being on tarmac is savage yeah I should remember when I was doing all that optimistic waving to people that's gone on it that's gone out my system is hello no no I should I maybe cheer me up now I let you see him go past so so you make of it look to have them on a bike yeah wave mate yes I did it and it did cheer me up there you go yeah it's the little things in it just the soles of my feet just feel like they're gonna well I don't know who cares anyway I feel fine you know what you're gonna be feeling a bit like that I've been since other pull-offs putting some serious days man they're on the 20 mile mark every day over 20 miles today easy so this will be the penultimate night and then my last night will be on the beach and I'm just gonna go for it man go for it because what am I saving like you know I started off and I had that second day where I was a bit you know I stopped about two or three o'clock because I thought I don't want to burn myself out it's early on but now what am I preserving myself for now now leave it all out here empty tank just leave it all out here man there's nothing there is no point in doing short days now there's no point in preserving my self or whatever it's just have it man let's have it and then we can start to dare to dream dare to look forward to stuff look forward to seeing loved ones look forward to hot running water look forward to different styles of food my own bed oh working even I like to be doing work and be busy with that sort of stuff all of it man is that stag cause it's a stag where do you think you are it's a stag with a salmon jumping over its head anyway I'm just chatting to you lot for a little bit because road walking is just cat right let's get it's utilized my scarecrow's there's a cross like a stone cross on that little island just I was looking for somewhere all down that road and there was a few okay places but I kept saying I'll keep going I'll find somewhere better and now I'm all over here and roads over the other side at River I came down there round passes Lodge and now I mean getting into the zone where it's like bog how wet it is oh bog so I don't know what's gonna happen got me a torch which I've not used the whole trip actually might have to do a bit of night hiking if it comes to it but I got to stop soon anyway because my feet are going to explode keep going keep going keep going I got a bit of signal over there so just saying on my stories like I'm losing it man when you start doing dad gags I was just telling everyone about the time I was in a reggae band in the like mid I played triangle for reggae band back in the mid 2000s a summer and they're just saying like I had to leave after a couple of weeks he was just wanting after another hey and that's the sort of thing you do when you're you know you're at your wit's end you talk to sheep you interact with dead animals verbally not physically and you do the odd dad gag which I know I'm not normally one for me jokes but there's a joke for you I say yeah my another joke is this not being able to find a campsite my feet are a joke there's no punchline just yet let's get somewhere let's just be positive come on stop grumbling what about there what about there just sodden our feet just got stopped absolutely knackered today was a long day the longest of all the days I'm finishing strong I still feel pretty strong you know it nearly broke me at times but especially this morning but we're finishing strong and we're having some posh pork and beans I don't know how you can make beans and pork posh just what just open it up and put a monocle on it or something buy it a horse I don't know let's give it a give it a go man so hungry that's good that that's the nicest one of these fire pots and that's here when you got one left one meal left one I've got one night after tonight I've got one meal left I'm probably not gonna have it because tomorrow near the end of the day we go past a a lund like a I go past a shop and I believe a fish and chip shop so if that's the case you can stick your camping meal I'll be going all in at shop on sweets I've got my marina wool leggings and me down pants and pièce de resistance me down tough socks I use my other ones to hiking today I had two pairs of down toughs that I was gonna rotate and just wear at camp and today I just thought I couldn't face putting my freezing cold wet marina sock liners on just couldn't face it I'm gonna get some well-earned rest mate I'll see you on the next one ciao for now morning glampers I'm all packed up tents just gotta go away it's quarter seven getting an early one oh man and first few steps are just brutal I did about 26 miles yesterday didn't in a full marathon yesterday so feet are gonna take some working up a bit that's nice clouds just covering the tops of the mountains there not a bad little setup everywhere was just so boggy and then as I was coming along the track bang just this whatever whether being just maybe using it to turn around in vehicles or whatever it is I'm grateful of it he's mad I've carried this all the way from home no I got it in Fort William actually I got it in Fort William because I forgot mine I had one at home and I forgot to pack it and then luckily in Fort William in Morrison's in Fort Williams they had one exactly the faith I needed bit dented freezing cold maybe get to the lighthouse about 10 or 11 o'clock and then I'm gonna crack it open and then I've got to walk the 11 miles to the ferry fueled on one can of faith probably not a good idea but I'm gonna do it anyway it's not raining it's that's a bonus this morning I picked a couple of whopping ticks off me I'd worn on me hip that was just itching me all night and I didn't I kept ditching anything that's not can't be a tick that it'll be where me packs been rubbing and I couldn't see but I used my little hand mirror and low and behold tick flare just suckling on my blood I've D ticked to the best of my knowledge my gate is bust again I don't have any more spare bands for me Gator but we're so near okay so the track peels off to the right but you can see that lock down there in the distance I want to be on the side of that lock so it's gonna be off-road nice the beauty look so don't get caught out you think oh well I'll just keep following this path round but you've got to just go off-road across this boggy pathless zone let's feet wet already at least I've got a visual on where I need to be so you know I don't need to set a bearing or look at the map necessarily it just that's where I need to be and as much as just picking the best route you can to get there not a breath of wind and no rain which makes a difference yesterday which is a joy as well every day it's not raining it's a good day it's like a computer game mate we've got to jump from one thing to another otherwise that's full-length the mastic and look it's still going still going I got well I'll swallow the whole thing mate and that's up to my that's up to my chest and it was still going so you don't you know it's serious stuff like a couple with the fact that there is no path is where I'm going just hugging the side of this all the way around this lock hopefully join on to a track at some point or a bit more a bit more warning hey look little fishy moved there like on the map where it's just little red dots means well there's just little red dots it means there is no you know it's there's no path but I guess the more as time goes on and the more people that do it then little red dots will eventually become little red dashes and you know as the popularity of these sort of trails grows and I'm sure you know me making these videos is going to contribute to a few of them little red dots becoming red dashes and you know it's all good but it is a bit of a I mean it's still hard even if all you know even if there wasn't any pathless sections but I I imagine that in maybe you know a few years time ten years time I don't think I reckon you'll be able to tell where you're going just by following other people's foot tracks at least look should we draw some on here and not what you think there you go seeing some lovely fish jumping in the log and but this is when I say when I say it gets to be a path this is it not much of a path and it is pretty boggy and slippy so it's straightingly slow going I've come through here the other lock is on that side and you come through and it's just the same again same again and that it's the first time I've got proper angry I like slipping over and just couldn't get a rhythm going I was cursing it curse you keep rough trail oh and you get over there and it's just repeating it repeater crouch right just hit the road out glad glad to be seeing the back of that particular stretch nearly ended me mate nearly ended me not quite though not quite still going strong it's cop shop look gonna go nan me sending sorry sorry officer there's been a murder I've just murdered that last bit of trail there's the boat working there I'm guessing their muscles muscle farms yeah speaking of muscle farms mate you what yeah mate you want get your boat up here mate get on your net getting cocky Anna getting cocky because I'm near a shop where I can get some sweets four miles of this foot busting gear and we're there aimlessly meandering and I looked to my left I was like that's a bit that's a big lock it's the big blue look at size of it I mean some of these locks I've seen I've been like well that's pretty big impressive but yeah she is man the big blue you can't deny it beautiful beautiful there's a little boat coming into harbour as well stunning mate I wonder what visibility is like onto the track to Sandwood Bay there has been a man tell you what I said I'll wait till I get back from holiday and this is a holiday by the way I've booked this off I'm self-employed so I've taken I'll take a hit to do this because he's what I love anyway I said to myself I'll wait until I've done this before I get my haircut all through COVID the last lockdown I thought we'll keep it wild until I get back to civilization and I'll get reborn it's snipped all right that's where's your mom where's your mom gone lads hey there's your mommy you're alright I think that's the lighthouse don't in the far today anyway I might have to cut come at it with a fresh pair of noggin bollocks tomorrow there's no way I'm making it at lighthouse today no way mate I mean too much pain your feet are runies hurting me a little bit too much fatigued and it's killer what's killing me as well is the thought of so there is no boat and that well there's no minibus is running from the lighthouse so I'm contemplating having to just get to lighthouse and then come back all over this all of this track and all over the bog that I'm gonna do tomorrow which is a fair old whack I won't have the single minded goal of getting to the lighthouse will have dissipated tomorrow once I get there it's done in it once I get that's that lighthouse mate I just want to I just literally want to like as stiff as a board like I've been sparked just like that just fall and I want someone to put a bed underneath me I'm landing that bed and then I just want to be carried around for the next week fed grapes and stuff like that chocolate that's all get quick photo at lighthouse yeah I've done it and then boom collapse duvet over my head like they do to a corpse where they sort of just push that they pull blanket up over head or solemnly I want that to be done but I want it to be done with a duvet there he is leaving there and I will rest in peace thank you very much this man now another seas just over there and down to the left but I'm absolutely zonked and this looks just let me show you get down nice I've got going here now give myself a a boost and just have a wash and just rest my feet in the cold water water I've got there now taken 13 days the grimness is having to put these wet wet kegs on from other day when I was in river these have just become the swimming kegs absolutely beautiful say what mate if there was enough room here to pitch a tent I'd stay there's the sea see the sea and you won't be able to see this mate I don't know why I'm even bothering top of my thing there right on that bit of land is the lighthouse beautiful look at it no abandoned building there huge lock there's the sea oh man delightful see looks a bit choppy to go in so I'm glad I went for a swim in that lock I was just speaking to a couple and they saying they said it took them five hours and it's all there's no path it's pretty boggy all that similar stuff but they were coming from the lighthouse this way and it was their first day so maybe they don't know I don't know how mad it can get and maybe a bit more battle-hardy I'll find a place maybe amongst the dunes or against this plateau on this the side of this cliff bit here but look at it man it's very small it's stunning fruity juicy and fresh I have kept the faith for so long this is the last maybe I should drink it here because it's my last night this is my last night on the Cape Wrath trail so maybe I will have it if I chin it at the lighthouse it might mean might make it a bit harder to get back what a glorious place to do such a thing I can hear that for a view man got my bread bags on I'm just gonna go down to this I'll definitely be filtering this like this is like it's come down from tops on it comes through everything because I know that I've not drank enough water today I'm starting to feel a little bit queasy definitely dehydrated so I'll get these two liters and smash them down tonight right so it's been a couple of days my money my last night now I genuinely can hardly remember what I've been doing his last couple of days it's all a big blur oh man what the hell where did I go from did it did it did it all way down here I don't know so I camped down here somewhere and then went out here hit this road it to the it was a nightmare I'm gonna be honest an absolute nightmare from start to finish it was just so rainy so just horrible and all the way up here this is a nightmare coming around here all the all difficult and they're up onto nine and this is where it joins on to the other path this is all so boggy so boggy the terrain is just slow hard going it means stunning don't get me wrong it is it is it is beautiful all but it's all been beautiful but when it's hard and when Ed's not in it it's hard around this lock and then I went instead of going into it I was like right let's make a move for it I went up here this was just it's all track but so steep man that was a killer got up here and along came down here through this plantation it's all been sort of cut down most of it and then hit the dreaded road and I thought right because by time I was up road I'd done a bit of road work where they go here come around here by the time I got about here I was done for I thought I'd have a look along here and it was just one of them like I'll keep going keep going I'll find somewhere couldn't really find anywhere crossed over here to this lodge and then on on wood and then I started to panic I was like oh no I mean this back in this like bog zone I'm not gonna get anywhere to camp but there was a little bit where the vehicles obviously turn around here and so I got in there for tonight and that's that one done at the risk of letting all the bugs in I've just opened I'm keeping door open and I've opened that side as well because it's just too nice it's too glorious man look at that I'm just being spoiled with my last night my last night on the Cape Wrath trail I was so lucky because it's really exposed here so if this was if the weather decided to turn you get your ass handed to you I think this is an amazing way to go out on it as well it's lovely sunset lovely evening and I know tomorrow is gonna be hard and it will be you know it's been a goal for a good few years to do this trail and I'll feel good when I get to that lighthouse despite having I'm not even thinking about what I've got to do after the lighthouse that's not even gonna I'm gonna get to that lighthouse I'm gonna chin that I'm gonna chin that northern Monk can regardless I look forward to it because you know I didn't I wasn't drinking leading up to you know leading up to come in here and I didn't drink and I even my when my boy came up in his car and sketched out me and he had a can of ale I didn't take it I've had chances to have drinks but just haven't taken them I'm gonna wait earn your beer earn your beverage I feel like this would be a good place to leave it to like leave it here wouldn't it this would but this is like the perfect end could I leave it here or would I always remember would I kick myself and not going to lighthouse so I suppose from here walking back like there's no taxi or anything from here I'd have to walk back into town and that's that's like four hours it's the same sort of distance but now what am I on about you've got to go to the lighthouse aren't you what am I on about Jesus getting all caught up some rest in my feet and it's like nice in this nice looking at that I'm like oh let's just end it here it's the perfect end to a mad mad hike tough tough as old boots tough hike what beautiful Brutiful is what I've called it brutal and beautiful brute the Cape Wrath trail Brutiful Brutiful murdered anyway we'll have a look at this sunset if it if it starts to if it kicks off when it gets to her to her eyes and I'll let you have a little look here we go then so right what I'm on map map of shango map you let it see a map map you make on here map Morgan mappy Gilmore mapton map map map map map map map map demon right woke up here let's get a wriggle on dad a camp there cuz there wasn't that many camp spots and there was one here but there's someone on there so I'm glad I'm glad anyway plowed on plowed on this was like such a nightmare it's all off-road boggy like honestly if you go up to where you're going up to your neck in some of these bogs so deep and then along the side of here was just it was frustrating me couldn't get a good pace it was just stopping start kept slipping and not good on ankles and to here there was a river crossing here that was a quite a big one actually and imagine that in a that gets pretty pretty hectic maybe even passable at times so that was fun did that cracked on dreaded road got to the dreaded road what to be a past that police station just road work road work road work went to this old London stores I tell you what if you get chance do stop in there it's an old shop he's just got bits and pieces but such a lovely odd bloke and it was really nice I tried to give him a tip I was like I don't need change mate you can have it and he's like right well take another one of them chocolate bars it was a fully nice odd bloke in there so if you get the chance to stop in please please do and I kept going where did I go from here I went down here for some reason I went down there round the map said to go that way but I just went this way around the road and then I mean my legs my feet were just killing me by now because it was too much road work whatever this road was it's a single track road it's not it's not very busy it's only people coming to to the end of here like so not very busy but a road nonetheless nice views looking backwards I'll give it that to the car park and then over the track anyway as we go it was a lovely day today and real nice scenery round here which lock did I go and I think yeah this one here I went for a little swim in here just to soothe my bones and just to soothe my body and freshen up a little bit over here and then once you get to it's such a lovely view to see the sea it was absolutely stunning with this lock as well all through here just lovely it's a lovely change of scenery yeah I really enjoyed it along the beach and I'm on I came past there up here I'm on this little nab where the tip of my knife is I think there that's where I am and tomorrow it's all dots look so there's no there's no path it's just and I met a couple on the way back I got chatting to them and they said it taking them like five hours to do so we're just gonna have to dig deep all along this moorland and you do hit a track there for the little last little bit and then that you're at the finish now then once I'm at the finish I'm gonna try and see if I can blag someone to just give us a lift if not I'll have to just walk it I'm tempted to eat I'll even walk back all the way back to wherever so I can get a lift or I'll walk this track here which is 11 miles this black track and that takes me to to there and then there's a ferret there's a boat that takes you across here and I could get picked up here so there is options but that's the main goal for tomorrow right if you want to join me for the finale you can click the subscribe button in the bell you'll get 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