Orkney Holiday August 2019 Part 1

This was our second visit to the Orkney Islands, we had wanted to go back to see some of the landscapes and sites that we didn't have time for in 2018. We got the same Pentalina ferry from Gills Bay to St Margaret's Hope, which was a bit choppy as usual through the Pentland Firth. After docking we headed to Wheems Organic Farm and made ourselves at home in the wooden hut, we had stayed there last year so the we knew the folk and the lie of the land. The next day we stopped off at Stromness for a lunch stop at Julia's cafe bistro, the food was as good as we remembered. After our food we stocked up on beer for the night from the Co-op. We then headed to the Brough of Birsay, an uninhabited tidal island with a lot of history off the North West coast of Orkney mainland.
It felt great to be back on Orkney again, very peaceful, empty roads and beautiful light.

View from the ferry

Victoria Street Stromness

lots of sailboats

Rainbow at Birsay

The Brough of Birsay at low tide

Lesley and Sitka heading over the causeway

Sitka wasn't allowed past the fence line so he decided to take off in search of food, Lesley giving chase

Great view back to Birsay

Brough of Birsay lighthouse built in 1925 by David A Stevenson

Kitchener's Memorial at Marwick Head with the hills on the island of Hoy in the background

Birsay landscape light

Storm brewing out to sea

A twister forming over Birsay

Lesley and Sitka heading back to Birsay

Sun setting on the lighthouse

Sitka crashed out on our bed after all the fresh air and his Export nightcap