Category: great skua
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42. Day Ten in Shetland: Bum Knee & Funky Weather in Foula, Packing Up
Again with the knee I was. It was a grey day, and very windy, so didn’t have huge regrets. I was SO grateful to have had my excellent first day on Foula. I was content to spend another day indoors, with a bit of a walk to capture the ocean and Gaada Stack. My friend…
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41. Day Eight in Shetland: A Short Flight to Foula, Many Puffins, Dinner and a Sunset
When I was making my plans for Shetland back in fall of 2021, I had a big question in my mind: Fair Isle or Foula? These two small islands were attractive in similar ways: remote, lots of birds. Fair Isle has the whole knitting thing, Foula has the really high sea cliffs. Another question was…