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| The plane used for our journey. | | |
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Just spent a few days with my sister and husband on Westray & Papa Westray, two of the Northern isles of Orkney, We flew first to Papa Westray a small island with a population of just sixty, a beautiful place with white sandy beaches, we were there for one night before flying to Westray. The flight takes about two minutes and is the shortest flight in the world, The island is much larger with about six hundred people living there ,it is the most north-westerly of the Orkney islands, it has a huge 80km coastline,with stunning cliff scenery and beautiful sandy bays.If you are interested in history then Westray has a lot to offer from the iron age through the Viking period right up to to the modern day ,our reason for being there was the bird-life ,from Arctic and Great Skua to cliffs covered with Gannets, Guillemot both common and black ,Razorbill and Cormorant,Kittiwakes and Flumar, but the best of all was the sea stack at Castle O' Burrian which in spring has 2-300 Puffin nesting on the stack and adjacent cliffs, this was a fantastic sight with Puffin's only feet away as you can see from the pictures below. The holiday finished on Sunday with a flight back to Kirkwall and I got to sit in the Co-pilots seat to balance out the weight, fantastic views flying over the Islands.
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| Knap of Howar Orkney's oldest known Farmstead |
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Inhabited between 3600 and 3100 BC
On Papa Westray
Puffin's at Castle O'Burrian
