A highlight of this Year of Coasts and Waters is a retrospective exhibition of the work of the North Ronaldsay artist Ian Scott – online. With technical support from a family team, he has gathered together images of paintings and...
Category - Sea and Land
Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
Alison McLure of the Institute of Physics has travelled on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and is a member of Tayside Mountain Rescue team and gives talks on ‘The Physics of Mountain Rescue’. She has climbed...
Pilgrims on the Brough of Deerness
After a bad forecast came a grey Sunday, the first of October. White waves were on the loch and clouds passed swiftly. Tones of gold and crimson lay over the swamp, and the trees were changing; there were drifts of leaves in...
Little flower of the north
You’ll know it when you see it, with its delicate mauve petals and yellow centre, its short stalk rising from the little rosette of green leaves. It’s a little distance back from the sea-cliffs, tucked down in the transition zone...
North Ronaldsay’s woolmill
North Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed, part of the family of Northern European short-tailed sheep. Other members include the Soay sheep and the Iceland sheep and other native breeds spread across the north from the Baltic to...
Orkney trees – a labour of love
Planting trees is an Orcadian labour of love. The salt winds of autumn are particularly...
Exploring Hoy
Every Friday I would run from school and straight onto the M.V. Graemsay that would take me to the...
Sheep and genes, wool and weaving
A hot day, and sheep lie panting in the shade, each covered in an insulating blanket of wool. Does...
A Walk to the Hamars
“My, that’s a wintry soond,” a visitor remarked as the gale came snarling around the end of the...
Straw bale structures for Orkney
‘Structures’ means anything above ground which is not actually in contact with the sea or a burn...