
Lakes and deserts
There are two beautifully contrasting colours of Devonian sandstone in St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall in Orkney. Both are 380 million years …
There are two beautifully contrasting colours of Devonian sandstone in St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall in Orkney. Both are 380 million years …
My adventures on the third of five days walking the entire coast of Westray.
The mini-boulders on Westray’s beaches are a never-ending source of stripes and spots of beautiful muted colours.
Westray has no sandstone rocks, yet it has occasional sandstone pebbles on its beaches. Here’s one. It was brought from the island …
It’s easy to tell an incomer on Westray. They stick out like a sore thumb. I’m one of them, I should know. …