3 A man fly fishing near the centre of the city, Inverness
4 Inverness
5 Instructions for tourists on a ferry, Orkney
6 Westray, Orkney
RBS staff travel to Westray a couple of times a week to staff the local bank.
7 Westray, Orkney
I like the note at the bottom.
8 Westray, Orkney
The skeleton of a blue whale that the locals collected.
9 Westray, Orkney
10 Westray, Orkney
11 Westray, Orkney
12 Westray, Orkney
13 Seals, Westray, Orkney
14 Westray, Orkney
15 Puffins, Westray, Orkney
16 Puffins, Westray, Orkney
17 Puffins, Westray, Orkney
18 Puffins, Westray, Orkney
19 Puffins, Westray, Orkney
20 Westray, Orkney
While in the Orkneys we went on the shortest scheduled flight in the world. The flight time (including taxiing) from Westray to Papa Westray is two minutes.
The man in the photo is the airport ifre marshall, the island wildlife guide, and island taxi driver. He also loads the mail onto the plane.
21 Westray, Orkney
22 The Italian Chapel, Orkney
During the war Italian PoWs turned a nissen hut into an elaborate chapel.
23 Orkney
24 Orkney
25 Orkney
26 Guillemots, Orkney
27 Guillemots, Orkney
28 Orkney
29 Skara Brae, Orkney
This preserved neolithic settlement is older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
30 Skara Brae, Orkney
This preserved neolithic settlement is older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
31 A stone circle, Orkney
32 The Broch o' Gurness, Orkney
33 Tidal Causeway - Brough of Birsay, Orkney
It is possible to cross the causeway to visit the Brough of Birsay only during the 2 hours either side of Low Tide.
34 Puffins, Orkney
35 Orkney
36 Orkney
37 Orkney
38 Orkney
39 Orkney>br> This was in an area where the locals had quarried lots of millstones. We found this one which must have cracked halfway through the excavation and been abandoned.
40 Kirkwall, Orkney
41 Kirkwall, Orkney
42 Kirkwall, Orkney
43 Kirkwall, Orkney
44 Kirkwall, Orkney
45 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney
Construction of this cathedral begun in 1137, making it one of Britain's oldest. It has its own dungeon.
