Home / Holidays / Shetland Isles 02-10/07/07 122
- West coast of Scotland near Reiff
- Lucy Climbing Midreiff
- Jim on Midreiff
- Adrian on Midreiff
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- St Ninnians Isle, joined to 'mainland' by sand spit
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- Wee beach at Levenwick Ness
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- Traffic control lights on the runway at Sumburgh Airport
- Stopped on the runway for a quick photie
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- BA flight taking off
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- Sumburgh Head lighthouse
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- Guillemots eating and shitting all over the palce
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- Mr puffin who was very happy to pose for us!
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- More bird poo
- Closeup of lighthouse
- Oil workers heading out to the rigs
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- Oil workers headed home!
- Cycling around the back of the Loch of Spiggie
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- Looking out west
- Colsay Island to the right
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- Very straight road!
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- Bigton in the distance
- Broch in middle of Lerwick
- Views across the town from the hill at the back of the campsite
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- Broch
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- Back on the bikes and heading north
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- Splendid wee spot we found on South Yell at Burravoe Pier. Wild camping, but with access to a tap.
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- Burravoe Pier
- Headed across Yell via Mid Yell
- View down towards Mid Yell
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- Beach at Mid Yell
- Me And Loops On Pier
- Knackered Loopster
- North Yell. We took the wee road North from the ferry in search of a beach for lunch
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- Away from it all houses on the way to the beach
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- Fantastic beach (better than those I sampled on Harris/North Uist in fact!)
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- Me and Loops with the beach to ourselves
- Sign at ferry on getting onto Unst (UK's most northerly isle - providing we are not counting 10 metre long lumps of rock!)
- Baltasound - where someone was getting married (woman in post office was shutting up shop to attend!)
- The infamous Unst bus shelter
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- I cycled up to the top of the Sava Vord radar station (now closed) for a butchers. Lucy admired the birds!
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- Shetland ponies on the road when we were heading back to the Ferry on Unst
- The extremely cheap inter-island ferry service. Person+Bike: £3.20 for Mainland-Yell-Unst (ret).
- Headed out to Northland
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- Rock with arch at Esha Ness
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- Esha Ness lighthouse
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- Esha Ness Cliffs
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- Must be some routes on these?!
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- Mini viking boat at Lerwick
- Ditto - with the clouds putting on a show!
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- Lerwick Harbour
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