Voyage to Orkney on the Scrabster to Stromness ferry
Virtually no heather to be seen here. Orkney is rich in agricultural pasture land
Kirkwall houses
Noup Head Lighthouse - Westray
Causeway leading to the Brough of Birsay
The Norse settlement was constructed over earlier foundations dating from the 7th & 8th centuries AD when Orkney was part of the kingdom of the Picts
Neolithic Orkney – Masehowe burial chamber is a testimony to the amazing engineering skills of our ancestors from 5,000 years ago
Our climb up to the Old Man of Hoy
Janet viewing grey seals
Ring of Brodgar - Orkney
The uplands of Hoy appear from the evening mist
Walking along the coast at Mull Head on the Deerness peninsula
Orkney House
Westray
Carpet of thrift - Westray
Island of Hoy
Old Man of Hoy
Rackwick beach
Red sandstone cliffs and sea stacks of Hoy
The sedimentary rocks of Orkney have been laid down like a layer cake providing an evolutionary record of the past
Across the Churchill Barrier to Lamb Holm and the chapel of St Mary built by Italian POW’s in 1942
It's summer but the NW winds blow cold
The castle-like ruins of the Earl’s Palace was the grand house built in 1574 by Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney and the illegitimate son of James V
Appaloosa horses
Scrabster to Stromness ferry framed by the cliffs and the Old Man
Skara Brae, Orkney - 3100 BC
Standing stones of Stenness
Statue of St George designed by artist Domenico Chiocchetti who also designed the chapel of St Mary
Viewing the nesting birds on the sea cliffs of Westray
Sandra makes a new friend
Wild orchid - Hoy
Stromness
St Magnus Cathedral Kirkwall
Angela - our NWF guide
Site of a Norse settlement dating from 9th to 12th centuries AD
The sloping entrance to Masehowe aligns with the rays of the sun at the winter solstice on 21st December
Rackwick hostel Hoy
