A Shetland month - lots of time at Sumburgh Head, on Scat Ness and on Quendale Beach and finished the month by driving onto the MV Hjaltland for the crossing to Aberdeen.
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| Razorbills at Sumburgh Head getting re-acquainted |
Reporting Days: 31
Location: Shetland
Distance Walked: 206 km
Distance Driven: 632 km
Auks Spotted: Guillemots (Common & Black), Razorbills
Sumburgh Head
A fine place for sea watching - and for auk watching. During March the two highlights at Sumburgh Head were the return of the Razorbills (the guillemots were already back, and the puffins had opted to wait until April) and the traditional start of season sounding of the foghorn.
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| Sumburgh Foghorn |
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| Early morning light on the foghorn and lighthouse tower |
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| Waves hitting Guillemot Rock, one of the Sumburgh sea stacks |
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| Firing up the Kelvins - Sounding the Sumburgh Foghorns |
Scat Ness
Scat Ness is a splendid place for wave watching, on some days at least.
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| Blue skies & calm seas. Looking across West Voe to Sumburgh Head. |
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| Incoming waves on the west side of Scat Ness |
Lerwick
This month I've only been as far as Lerwick (it's about 22 or 23 miles from the house) to get on the boat or more often to go to the bigger supermarkets. And I do usually wander round the harbour to see what boat are in.
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| Lerwick lifeboat, waiting for a shout. |
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| Lerwick Harbour |
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| Arctic P - once a polar-ready salvage tug now one of the cooler superyachts |
Quendale Beach
I try and walk Quendale Beach every day I'm on Shetland - on the grimmer days this might just be a walk to the beach and back again. On better days, I'll walk the full length of the beach, sometimes more than once!
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| Quendale Sunset |
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| High tide on Quendale Beach |
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| Shifting sands & exposed rocks on Quendale Beach |
And next month
Easter in Oxford, then back on the trains for the Spring visit to Lombardy.
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