Orkney has precious few trees. And I mean precious. Perhaps I should say Orkney has a few precious trees. Windswept, almost barren to the eye, the landscape is largely bare of woodland. Wood has been a scarce commodity on the Islands and so beachcombing for flotsam and jetsam has been an essential part of the [...]
There’s just time for some rough cycling down to the nearest beach at Taftend before sunset. It’s a chance to get off the bike and sit and marvel at the sky.
I’ve seen the sun rise, orange and luminous over the ocean from my bedroom window and now it’s time for me to see it set behind Fitty Hill. A glorious day.
There’s just time to wander down to Taftend om my bike to watch the sun set behind Fitty Hill.
… is of nothing but fields and clouds and ocean.
Coastal erosion at the Links of Noltland leaves scattered stones over a neolithic settlement quicky disappearing with the wind.
The dunes at the Links of Noltland show their erosion by the wind – the grass tufts left are six feet above the current sand surface and a complete neolithic settlement and bronze age village lie just inches below the surface of the shifting sands.
Wind blows the sands into ripples and threatens to engulf the vegetation.
This afternoon there was time to cycle to East Kirbest and walk to Inga Ness, skirting Skea Hill and to look out to sea with a posing cow for company.
Cycling to the Westside of Westray I can see the Netherhouse in silhouette. A series of dwellings built up the hill, the middle and lower were left in 1932, whilst the upper was finally only abandoned in the 1970s.
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