The final leg

We left Scrabster a little over thirty minutes early and pulling off we turned to pass between John O'Groats and The Orkney islands. 

With visibility good to clear we could train our binoculars onto the islands and see the occasional house or lighthouse.

We have just over 500 nautical miles to go before we reach Tilbury so tomorrow is another sea day, the last one before we all disembark and go our separate ways.

It'll be sad to say goodbye to Shirley but we are on another cruise together next year which should be good.

Before then I'm off to Guernsey for a week in September and then back to the Canaries and Cape Verde in November/December. 

This has been amazing. The only down side has been the changing of the times but to be honest I feel back to normal already so I've adjusted faster than I expected.

Oh well, one adventure comes to an end but others open.......so many to choose from, so many places yet to see.

paddling in the ice melt in Qaqortoq.