RogueRunners '26 Day 5 - The South Coast

 

As I said in the day 4 write up, Jason had arrived, this was his first tour with the Rogues, so he would've been looking forward to some epic blatting. So what did he get?

Well the first bit was on dual carriageway, then it started to rain, the next bit was good - except for the rain getting harder, at the furthest point we took shelter in a petrol station & put the hoods up, Jason hasn't got a hood - or indeed a windscreen.

Port William - the locals didn't have much to say

The next bit was over narrow lanes which were rutted & pot-holed, but the rain was easing by the time we got to Port William (no, not Fort Willian, that's somewhere else) the café there was closed (we knew this would be the case, but the public loos were open). It was dry(ish) as we headed out of town over more awful roads, heading for The Isle Of Whitehorn - which isn't an island, but it has got a harbour, I would've liked to walk around it a bit, but the cake in the café was calling to me.

The "café & community shop" could've been very good or very bad, but in fact St Ninnians was very very good indeed. After a coffee & a very large piece of sponge with actual strawberries on (so it counted as at least one of my five-a-day), we moved on over more rutted roads, but as we progressed along the coast, the surfaces improved & the roads started to wind a bit & it all became quite enjoyable. But at some point along there I managed to set the cameras to slomo, so I have no footage.

 When I went down to clean the mud (& worse) off the screen & lights, Jason still hadn’t returned. I was about to send out messages & prepare a rescue mission when a growl suggested he was about to arive. After a comfort break, the SatNav had tried to take him round the route AGAIN & he’d gone 20 miles in the wrong direction before realising.