Louise's Big Adventure: The Orkney Tourist

Well, we did some tourist bits, but there’s loads left to do, we’ll just have to go back…

3rd July

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Replica of Skara Brae

Hole perfectly sized for a 10 year old boy, but no lock and key

No hole big enough for a strapping 14 year old

The remains of the real thing

Skail House

Kayak graveyard in Stromness

What?!

5th July

The Italian Chapel

An interesting WII PoW story, but I won’t go into the details here.

Astounding interior

One of the wrecks as we crossed the Churchill Barriers

Bronze Age site at the Tomb of the Eagles

The Original Visitor Centre

Recycling at it’s best…

One..

…by one…

…they disappeared!

My interior photographs are not very good.

10th July

Bishop’s Palace, Kirkwall

St Magnus Cathedral, well, bits of it

Inside the Earl’s Palace

11th July

A terrible photograph of The Gloop

It was a tunnel from the sea into a cave until the roof collapsed. Or it could have been a blow hole.

The nice steps going to the Brough of Deerness

The slightly less nice steps…

There is currently an archaeological excavation at the Brough, but I didn’t get any photographs.

We made our way to the trig at Mull Head and carried on to complete a circuit. Well, for a little while, before we turned back to try to find an alternative route. The resident arctic skuas didn’t like us much, poor Aedan was dive-bombed! If I had realised they were nesting there, obviously I would have found the other path straight off, but we’d grown so accustomed to seeing them patrolling the cliff tops, I hadn’t paid attention. As soon as I saw it swooping along the moorland skyline towards Aedan, I realised my mistake and we beat a hasty retreat to find the less distinct cliff top path. Ooops. Added a little excitement to the day.

12th July