Category: geology

• 61. Day 29 in Shetland: Le Petit Cafe, Hermaness Visit II

  The day started in Uyeasound, where we went to pick up Mila for an outing to Hermaness and her first puffins. Got a few more photos of the peerie French cafe and booo-tique! Not just yummy French foods for sale via Honesty Box, but rocks, beverages, and a little garden as well. It was a…

  Deb

  September 7, 2022

  gannets, geology, Hermaness, Honesty Box, Puffins, seabirds, Shetland Islands, Travelogue, Unst

  gannets, Hermaness Nature Reserve, Puffins

• 60. Day 28 in Shetland: The Horns of Hagmark and Hill of Clibberswick

  Today’s Big Walk took us along the East Coast of Unst to the Horns of Hagmark (on the map, about parallel with the compass). It was a long but really interesting walk up until the last couple miles, which was all paved road. But even that wasn’t bad, as it took us by a sweet…

  Deb

  September 7, 2022

  geology, Hill of Clibberswick, Horns of Hagmark, Shetland Islands, Travelogue, Unst

  cliffs, trig point

• 58. Day 26 in Shetland: Keen of Hamar and Sandwick Beach

  Starting off, though, with some more photos of our croft house in Unst. I visited one other renovated croft house on the island, and it had almost exactly the same layout. This window at the top of the stairs gives you an idea of how thick the walls are. About two feet. Our first stop…

  Deb

  September 4, 2022

  Antiquities, Avian flu, geology, Norse Longhouse, Shetland Islands, Standing stone, Travelogue, Unst, Viking ruins

  rare flora, serpentine, standing stones, viking longhouse