The Bay of Tafts

The Bay of Tafts

 
Dunlin on the Tide Line

Dunlin are wary birds. As I walk along the Bay of Tafts they jerk in nervous motion and skit further along the beach to keep a watchful distance. As I paddle in the water they are less wary and I manage to approach within a few metres from the seaward side of them as they [...]

 
The Bay of Tafts

Sunshine on the clouds over Rousay at the Bay of Tafts.

 
Flatfish on Feet

Idyllic weather in Orkney? T-shirt and shorts on the beach? It must be August and it must be a fluke, surely? Westray is only 15km long yet has an 80km coastline with 17 sandy beaches. Today we spend the entire afternoon at the Bay of Tafts. Hermit crabs have taken flat periwinkle shells for protection [...]

 
Kids and Cameras

I learnt very early that if you want good photographs of your children there is only one solution – give them the camera. There’s no way that they will act naturally and play for parents in the same way as they would with their friends or siblings. It then became obvious that an even better [...]

© 2010 the HALL of EINAR Notes on a very small island Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha