Grobust is one of my favourite beaches on Westray. Here it is at sunset.
Aug 262010
Aug 262010
Grobust is a place I could (and do) go back to again and again. Being up before dawn and going to bed well after dusk, tracking the sun’s movement across the wide open skies and seeing the horizon everywhere I go is something I will miss when I leave.
Aug 262010
For a grey, windy, desolate place of long winter nights Westray really knows how to do spectacular natural sights.
Aug 262010
The end of a glorious day. Sunset at Grobust.
Aug 262010
Orkney is a plural. It’s acceptable to say ‘the Islands of Orkney’. It’s fine to say ‘Orkney’. Saying ‘the Orkney Islands’ won’t raise an eyebrow from me either. However, say ‘the Orkneys’ and I will shudder. Orkney is a plural and refers to all of the islands here. You wouldn’t say ‘the sheeps’ would you? [...]
Aug 222010
The side of Fitty Hill is bathed in the orange glow of sunset as I reach the summit at 169m.
Aug 222010
I reach the stile at the top of Fitty Hill as the sun sets.
Aug 222010
A miserable grey day of rain and more rain. The Met. Office say it will clear later. What do they know? I’d like to nail their flip-flops to the triangulation point on Fitty Hill, the highest point on Westray, and shout “So tell me it’s clear now then!” My feet are soaking as I walk [...]
Aug 192010
Looking out from the Knowe o’ Skea bronze age burial ground towards Rousay.
Aug 172010
Yesterday was a wonderful sunny day so farmers were busy cutting the grass to make hay whilst flocks of gulls followed. The message is: let’s make hay whilst the sun shines!