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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

To Boreray and the Stacs

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About 7km to the NE of Hirta lies one of the most dramatic island groups in Scotland: Boreray and the Stacs. MV Cuma now made her way betwe...
Monday, February 02, 2009

The sea cliffs of Hirta

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On board the MV Cuma again, we were soon rounding the eastern ramparts of Oisebhal on Hirta. We were bound for Boreray and the stacs and the...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

No 3, The Street and the silent poem of the people of St Kilda

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It was early June 2008. Leaving the burial ground, I walked slowly back down the village street of empty windows and doors. On the way, I he...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Life and Death on St Kilda

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From the Gap below Oiseval on the NE coast of Hirta I turned my back to the sea and the wheeling fulmars. I made my way back down to the vil...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

130 fulmars per year.

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The cliff ledges of Hirta are home to thousands of pairs of fulmars. At one time fulmars were confined to the St Kilda archipelago but since...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Between a pox and a hard place on Stac Lee.

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From the cliffs on the NE coast of Hirta it is less than 7km across the Atlantic to Boreray and its two satellite stacs . They are Stac Lee ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

A Rock at the Edge of the World: St Kilda

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The slope up to the Gap ended abruptly. At my feet the ground fell away into vertiginous nothingness. The cliffs on the north coast of Hirta...