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Bay of Skaill

Westray - The Bay of Skaill - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

The Bay of Skaill

On a glorious day on Westray this boat on the Ouse on the Bay of Skaill makes a beautiful scene:

Curlew - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Whaup Whaup overhead

A trip to the Bay of Skaill reveals the shallow turquoise waters which look Caribbean to someone as starved of heat as …

St Peter's Kirk in Sandwick - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

18 inches of pew

St Peter’s Kirk in Sandwick on Orkney looks so beautiful in the low sunshine, standing quietly alone in its graveyard. It’s now …

Green Sea Urchin - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) 2016 David Bailey (not the)

Sea Urchin

Spotted a Green Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis at the Bay of Skaill.

Bay of Skaill - photograph (c) 2016 David Bailey (not the)

The Bay of Skaill

It must be shell sand below for it to be so beautifully pale and for the water to be so turquoise. The …