Shetland’s Skies

At times this week I’ve just stopped taking photos. The landscape here is so hard to capture in a picture. The skies and seas constantly change with the clouds and the light. From soaring sea cliffs to broad peat moors to windswept beaches, always accompanied by big skies. 

Our walking highlights have been at Eshaness along the staggering cliffs, on Muckle Roe to The Hams and at Hermaness to see Muckle Flugga; the UK’s most northerly point!

Wildlife sightings have included seals, gannets, great skua, oyster catcher, red throated divers, whimbrel, dunlin and the Shetland wren among lots of others. Still no whales though.

Unexpected treasures were discovering a Chelsea Show winning garden that had been moved and replanted in a local community garden, a brilliant heritage centre museum that was housed in the former primary school on the island of Unst just down the road from a replica Viking Longship at the side of the road, and the ‘White Wife,’ the figurehead from a German vessel that was shipwrecked off the coast of Yell. The full story is here: https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/shetland-blog/the-white-wife-of-otterswick/ and is also told brilliantly at the Old Haa museum, housed in one of the oldest buildings in Shetland.

So, after ferry hopping to Yell and Unst, we now venture south back to Mainland for a few days before our BIG and final ferry from Lerwick to Aberdeen next week. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about our island adventures.