Whale
There’s a whale corpse in the car park at Taftend. It takes up the space a car would, or even a little …
Learn to cook whale – in pictures
I love collecting books. There’s a lifetime of escaping to alternative worlds within the covers of a good book. One of the …
Sunset and the whale
When you can see the horizon, on days when you can spin and see the sea and the clouds surrounding you, there’s …
Driftwood and whalebone
The lack of trees on Orkney has meant that generations of people have relied upon driftwood and whalebone for building materials. Orkney’s …
Weather and wildlife strip the carcase clean
A 16 metre-long adult Sperm Whale beaching its carcase on the Bay of Tuquoy in 2007 was a source of much excitement …