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10. September 2022

Delightful Fair Isle

The ferry "Good Sheperd" bringing around 150 sheeps to the market in Shetland

Every year up to 600 animals leave the island on this way

The loading went suprisingly fast and smooth

Quiet morning - we are experiencing the first high pressure area in a long time

Cristal clear water, sometimes seals are playing in the harbour and orcas coming inside for hunting them...

Good protection, but it can get very uncomfortable in strong northeasterly winds and swell...

Fulmar chicks, still too heavy to fly when there is no wind

Fulmars playing in the wind - Danielle is watching them for hours

Also a lot of gannets - only the puffins left already the place for the winter on the sea

Lighthouse and foghorn

Young skua bird

Old army buildings on the highest hill

Airport of Fair Isle - there are usually two flights a day

Leftover from corona in the middle of nowhere

The burned down bird observatory beeing built again

Lovely sunny day, enjoying the quiet place

Birds playing in the wind

Young fulmars enjoying the strong wind...

...and flying around us

Coming up to 2m, where we are sitting

Getting some makreals in a few minutes on a calm day

There are many seals around, as long as the orcas are not here

Cormorans sunbathing

Karibu, a sailing vessel of Skipper Team, the company where we learned a lot about sailing

Beside a lot of birds there are small rabbits in every corner

Majestic gannets

Looking out for fish and going in a bomb-dive as soon as they spot one

Fair Isle harbour - center of the world. For the making of, see "videos"

Bigger swell is coming into the harbour - therefore the ferry is taken up on land and it's time to us to leave...

Heading out in rough sea with the waves against the tide

Heading with strong winds up to 30kn around the northern point of Fair Isle

Strenous sailing until we reached the protected other side of the island

Back in Kirkwall...

...and waiting for the upcoming storm to pass

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