We've been in Orkney recently. The plan was to take pictures for the updating of the Clyde Cruising Club's Sailing Directions for Orkney and Shetland.
Before getting the ferry to Orkney we paid a visit to Dunnet Head to see if we could get a photo of the sea at this most northerly point of the Scottish mainland.
* * * * Dunnet Head Lighthouse * * * *
* * * * * ORKNEY * * * * *
Scapa Flow platforms
Eynhallow Sound. Yacht 'Ragna' coming through the tide race.
Stone cairns, Brough of Birsay
Brough of Birsay Lighthouse.
The lighthouse is located on the Brough of Birsay, an uninhabited tidal island off the north west coast of Mainland in Orkney, in the parish of Birsay.
The Norse settled the island 200 years later, in the 9th century, but may have lived peacefully alongside the Picts. It’s still possible to make out the remnants of Norse houses, barns and even a sauna. Later, a small church and monastery were built.
You don't want to get stuck on this island when the tide comes in... otherwise.... (read the notice).
and further on south on the main island....
Yesenby (west coast looking north)
