meander

during the night a number of wet and windy squalls came through but when we woke up the tent was dry so we quickly packed up and had breakfast.

as soon as we got on the road the wind (and occasional shower) had picked up and was blowing hard from the west. most of our ride to penneshaw would be SE or NE, but the first few km were into the wind and it was a small chainring grind on the flat. very frustrating.

we had lots of crosswinds until the last section where we finally had a tailwind and the sun came out as we crested the hill above penneshaw and rolled into town to finish our circuit of the island. we checked back into the YHA and had our favourite fish and chips for dinner before sleeping in a bed for the first time in two weeks.