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Tresta, Fetlar

Sunday 23rd July

The ferry over to Fetlar takes half an hour. They run twice a day from Unst, and also from Yell at this time of year. There was one other car on the boat I was on, a family going over just for the day. With a big smile, the ferryman came over to collect the money, but with a big smile on his face, as the news he had for me, was that his ticket machine was not working, and therefore he couldn’t charge me. He was from Kendal originally, and another ferryman who has plans to convert a van to a camper, so keen for a look around mine.

I had researched Fetlar island, the main road from west to east is about 10 miles, to get an idea of its size. Before getting to the beach, I toured the island quickly, to see if there was anywhere else, similarly attractive, to stay. The island’s population is 67, the lady in the shop told me, and was 68 last Thursday. Sadly there had been a death, and with an ageing population it might be a while until this population trend is reversed. Very few are Shetlanders from, just 5. The rest have moved up from England. Parked up at Tresta beach I met a few of the local people during the day, all very friendly.

Tresta Beach is a fine place to be based, and I expect I will be here for a few days. There are no other campervans on the island, indeed few other visitors.

Though between the beach and the loch there is a football stadium..

Later in the afternoon on the beach I met the couple from Durham who were hiking the Shetland coastline, that I had met previously at Sandwick a couple of weeks ago. They had endured some tough days with weather, and also parts of the coast, like Fetlar, where generally there isn’t a path, and the wild moorland is boggy and deep in heather.

A yacht had come into the bay late on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning it was followed by several of the Tall Ships, on their way from Baltasound on Saturday evening, to Cullivoe on Monday. They just wanted somewhere calm to relax on a sunny Sunday. I had set off to walk onto the peninsula of Lamb Hoga earlier, and was on the cliffs returning when they sailed into the bay. Though there was a track for the first half of the 3 miles or so, the second half is wet and deep in Heather, very slow going. It is also home to quite a few Great Skua’s, or Bonxies, and it wasn’t long before Roja and I were again being dive-bombed. This time Roja did get offended at how close they came. It seems he recognises them now, and has worked out he is safest by being very close to my right leg. Less good for me though.

Back on the beach I got chatting to a Finnish guy from the Swan, the first Tall Ship into the bay. He was a business lawyer in Turku. During the afternoon most of the crew came to shore to swim, share a drink, or just chat and chill out. Their presence attracted a few locals down also, and the place which is normally so quiet, was relatively busy.. well, ten or twenty people around.

Books wise, I haven’t reported for a while. The highlights of my reading in the last week or so have been a second English translation, from Finnish, by Rosa Liksom called The Colonel’s Wife. She writes about the Second World War, her first book, Compartment Number Six, set on a Trans-Siberian train, and was adapted recently for a film, but her second is even better.

Also, the Argentinian author, César Aira’s new book, Fulgentius. This is a jaunt into ancient history, as he writes about an aging Roman general, tempted out of retirement back to the battlefield. He just happens to be a playwright with a cult following. At the age of 12 he wrote a tragedy that anticipated his own future. He resolves to put on a presentation of his new production in each new territory he conquers, with the actors from his armies. Of course he takes some criticism, but at his stage of life he has developed a skin thick enough not to be concerned. Aira is wonderful, and this is no exception.

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Shetland electric cars can now be fuelled purely by the power of the sea

Shetland electric cars can now be fuelled purely by the power of the sea

Good News Notes: “Nova Innovation’s tidal turbines have been powering local homes and businesses for more than five years. The company has now created an electric vehicle charge point on the island of Yell where drivers can fill up using tidal energy. The charge point is located on the shores of Bluemull Sound, at Cullivoe harbour. Nova Innovation chief executive officer Simon Forrest said…

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The joy of a storm

Saturday 15th July

Not everyone relishes a nine hour Atlantic storm and 60 mile per hour winds and torrential rain, but I do.

To take pleasure in the van rocking around and the rain drumming on the roof will seem strange to many. Skill is required to position the van so as the side door can be open at the time in order to appreciate the turbulence and inclemency to the maximum.

Once, when in Iceland I sought the far west of the country and a place that reputedly had the wildest storms in the world. I recall being disappointed when all we got was a few showers of rain.

During the storm my senses are heightened, I find my brain works better. It’s a good time to save a really good book for. And even to do a bit of work, which I did in the early afternoon. It was T20 finals day also, so from time to time I watched some of that.

It was a complete contrast to the evening before when I spoke to my brother over the phone showing off the late sun and clear sky over the ocean behind me.

I’m on the far north coast of Yell, the middle of the three main Shetland islands, just tucked in behind the Gloup peninsula above Breckon Sands, one of Shetland’s wild beaches, but it’s a mile away, and I haven’t been able to get down there yet. The storm began just after 8 am, and lasted until 5 pm, with quite a noticeable start and finish. I cursed at 8, as I had failed to get out with the dog beforehand, though he was quite happy to wait until the evening. The pics above show the fine evening yesterday, and the contrast to after the storm today.

I drove up here yesterday afternoon from West Sandwick. The guy originally from Carlisle who lived close by chatted again that morning, and recommended me a route to the north of the beach. It heads out on an inland track on the hill to the Loch of Birriesgirt. Though it was quite a bleak walk out there, on a fine morning, the Loch itself was one of those special places, that one discovers from time to time, and puts me in mind if that David Byrne lyric, this must be the place. It is sheltered, has sandy beaches, and yet the ocean and cliffs are just thirty metres away over a grassy rise. It would be perfect for a wild tent camp. It’s in the photo above, and the two below. Roja has an amazing knack of finding balls in places which you think would be the last place a lost ball would be.

I then took the coastal path back south, which was much tougher and slower, mainly because of the fence crossings. In all we were out for four hours, though included in that is sometime to appreciate the surroundings. It was a really good route.

On the way north, just a thirty minute drive, I called in at the Cullivoe shop. This is the best stocked of the various local shops I have called into, and indeed they all do have a considerable range of produce. It was quite a warm afternoon now, at 20C, and I spent some time chatting with the woman serving.

It’s orca season, and quite a few of the visitors to the islands are here to try and spot them. There are more sightings than ever, perhaps due to the climate they are further south than they would usually be, and perhaps also due to relative ease of taking pictures of, and filming them. Here’s a couple of examples from the last couple of days..

Back to Saturday night, the T20 final with a couple of beers, and probably a movie later.

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Man dies after car crashes and catches fire in Yell A man has died after his car caught fire after crashing in Yell, Shetland. Emergency services were called to the crash on the B9082, Gutcher to Cullivoe road at about 14:00. The driver was pronounc… Read More

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Coronavirus: Pupils begin return to the classroom

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Image caption Pupils at Kelso High College are among the many major in the UK to launch the fresh 2020/21 academic year

Scotland’s pupils bask in returned to classes for the major time since lockdown started almost five months in the past.

Borders and Shetland colleges are the major to reopen with most others following on Wednesday.

Bodily distancing among college students will no longer on the entire be required but hygiene and security features similar to one-technique systems had been save in enviornment.

Other than for youths of key staff, most of the country’s 700,000 pupils bask in no longer been at faculty since 20 March.

While councils had been given some flexibility over the abet to university timetable, the Scottish authorities needs all colleges fully launch by 18 August.

All age teams returned in the Scottish Borders on Tuesday – every week sooner than the fashioned originate of term – but most councils bask in opted for a phased ability, for instance by having youngest pupils return first.

Image caption Indicators had been save up in classrooms at Cullivoe Essential College in Shetland in a divulge to limit contact

While there isn’t such a thing as a requirement for bodily distancing between pupils, lecturers would per chance also simply restful dwell 2m moreover college students or other adults.

Older secondary pupils are also being impressed to preserve up distancing where that that you just can mediate of if this does no longer hinder the return to tubby-time studying.

There isn’t any longer any fashioned requirement to wear face coverings though crew and pupils can build so voluntarily.

College buses are treated as segment of the college constructing, so fashioned distancing or face covering principles build no longer hiss to pupils, but they’ll wish to sanitise their hands sooner than boarding.

At her coronavirus briefing on Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged that some lecturers, other folks and pupils would in fact feel anxious, but talked about the guidance became as soon as carefully worked thru and educated by scientific advice.

“Schools bask in worked in fact exhausting to augment pupils thru lockdown but we know the impact on education, on wellbeing, on happiness has been negative for younger other folks to be succesful to secure them abet into tubby-time education has to be a priority,” she talked about.

How bask in colleges prepared for pupils’ return?

Image caption Kelso High head trainer Jill Lothian says or no longer it’s the fresh procedures that portray the largest trade

Kelso High College in the Scottish Borders is one of many major in the country to welcome pupils abet to tubby-time studying.

Head trainer Jill Lothian says for younger other folks, or no longer it’s the procedures as an various of the constructing itself that bask in changed most.

She talked about there had been a host of entry and exit aspects and the college is attempting to limit the period of time pupils are transferring around the constructing. It’s miles on the entire attempting to preserve up them aside as out of the ordinary as that that you just can mediate of.

“There is a little bit of fear but that’s what we’re here for, to assemble definite they secure into the routines that are expected as we secure them around the college,” she talked about.

Image caption Hand sanitiser stations had been enviornment up in colleges, alongside side this one at Cullivoe Essential in Shetland

Each and each compare room is equipped with sanitiser and a cleansing hiss for pupils to wipe down their desks and chairs.

One-technique systems are in enviornment and pupils will likely be impressed to spend spoil cases outside, with controls to make obvious they build no longer all leave the constructing at the an identical time.

Shona Haslam, chief of Scottish Borders Council, believes the council has performed the entire lot it should to assemble the return to university as stable as that that you just can mediate of

“Extra cleansing, additional ventilation, children no longer strolling around the college moderately so out of the ordinary, one-technique systems in enviornment, college transport being an extension of the college estate – we now bask in performed all of those measures that are in the Scottish authorities guidance and we are as confident as we would per chance also additionally be,” she talked about.

Image caption Scottish Borders Council chief Shona Haslam says it has finished the Scottish authorities’s guidance in tubby

At Inverclyde Academy in Greenock, the college’s fresh cohort of S1 pupils would possibly per chance per chance be the major to stumble upon the fresh fashioned of education after they reach on Wednesday, with other year teams returning in the next days.

There will likely be no sharing of kit similar to stationery or headphones. They’ll lift equipment from dwelling but there isn’t such a thing as a necessity as person stationery packs and calculators will likely be issued.

Desks and seating had been organized in converse that pupils are facing the entrance of the compare room and no longer each other. They’ll sit down in pairs with a “shoulder accomplice” but there is a strict seating design to preserve up college students in “bubbles”, limiting the assortment of end contacts.

Head trainer Denise Crawford talked about there would be designated areas outside and in the cafeteria so year teams preserve within their teams.

The instructor’s workstation is a measured 2m distance from the desks. A trainer is allowed to ability a child to provide them person support, but such contact would per chance also simply restful be saved to a minimum and for a most of 15 minutes.

Hopes and fears

Image caption Inverclyde pupils Layla, Eddy, Rachel, Andrew and Emily spoke of their hopes and concerns over the return to university

Fresh Inverclyde Academy first year Emily,12, talked about she will be able to’t wait to study her web page visitors all yet again when she begins abet at on Wednesday.

“Now we bask in got no longer considered each other for see you later, we are going to be so happy to study each other,” she talked about. “This is able to also simply honest be astronomical.”

Layla, 11, thinks there’ll likely be some catching as a lot as build.

She talked about: “I’m moderately honest at English and issues and I originate no longer mediate I’ve overlooked too out of the ordinary on that on myth of I’m moderately confident but positively maths, I will wish to revise some issues.”

S5 pupil Eddy has learned it complicated to motivate himself proper thru lockdown but has some concerns in regards to the return to university and the that that you just can mediate of spread of Covid-19.

“I’ve bought my gran who’s in shielding. I wish to preserve up her stable,” he talked about “That’s what I’m insecure about.”

Rachel, 15, is anxious she would possibly per chance no longer be fully prepared for her bigger checks subsequent year.

“I mediate on myth of we haven’t sat the checks in fourth year, that going into fifth year and then sitting highers will likely be a little bit of a shock,” she talked about. “I originate no longer know the plan I will take care of it.”

Andrew, 12, is having a compare forward to some out of the ordinary-overlooked social interaction.

“For the length of lockdown we had been speaking but in the end there became as soon as honest nothing to communicate about on myth of nothing became as soon as going down,” he talked about. “I am hoping we are going to be ready to communicate about one thing rather then Covid after we secure abet into college.”

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Jonty Pearce – Over the top at Muckle Flugga

Jonty Pearce takes a mixed bag of weather on the chin for a cracking cruise around Shetland and Orkney, including a rounding of Muckle Flugga

Jonty Pearce: We should have had more faith. At the end of last week’s blog our Penguin Cruising Club charter crew were on tenterhooks waiting to see whether our Sail Orkney Elan Impression 434 would be on the Lerwick small boat pontoon at 0800 after her overnight delivery from Kirkwall following a hasty sail drive change – the old one had melted. We were very relieved to see a smiling Brian and his crew who had already refreshed themselves with a good breakfast after an 0530 arrival.

After the usual handover – sorting, victualling, lunching, and general fiddling, including topping off with fuel and water – we finally left Lerwick for an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of Shetland. Our overall plan included a visit to Fair Isle before returning the boat to Kirkwall after visiting some of the north Orkney islands. Our companion boat, Reach North, was chartered from Shetland Yachting and had to be returned to Lerwick by club members afterwards.

We spent the first night anchored inside the north-east channel of Out Skerries. Fog delayed our start the next morning and it was midday before we set off into a brisk northerly Force 6; with two reefs in the mainsail and half the genoa rolled away our pointing was less than perfect, but a couple of long tacks took us into Balta Sound off Unst. It was a relief to drop the hook in Balta Harbour and sit back with a nice cuppa tea without half of it slopping out onto the cockpit floor. We slept well.

I was apprehensive about the winds and roosts (tide races) off the north of Unst, but the day dawned quiet with too little wind to sail. We timed the tide off Holm of Skaw perfectly and had a smooth passage west to Muckle Flugga and its outlier, Out Stack, which form the northernmost point of the British Isles. We passed between them, shutters clicking, before ‘showboating’ around Out Stack so we were able to say that we had sailed ‘over the top’ as well as getting iconic photos of Muckle Flugga lighthouse. We celebrated with chocolate Penguin biscuits (how tame!) before setting course southwest to Cullivoe Harbour in Bluemull Sound.

We were treated to close views of a pod of seven orcas as we continued down the west of Mainland Shetland past Eshaness Lighthouse on our way to Papa Stour. With a forecast blow on the way, we sheltered in Housa Voe to ride it out at anchor. It was not a peaceful night; while we let out our full ration of 50 metres of chain when the wind hit, Reach North dragged and spent half the night circling before they managed a good hold. After an anchor-watch disturbed sleep, and knowing that the near gale would have whipped up the treacherous waters west of Papa Stour, I ordered a day of rest with optional shore parties after the winds eased in the afternoon. The sun came out, and we soaked up the beautiful surroundings and caught up on sleep.

Cat man to give round Britain talk

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Vertical Circumnavigator on home straight

Adrian Flanagan due back in Hamble next week after 30, 000 miles

Goss going for it

Repairs finished, pit stop over

Jonty Pearce: Efficiency Savings

In our dreams, and seeking pastures new, we sailed Aurial away to explore more of the myriad nooks and crannies…

Jonty Pearce: Junk rig?

I apologise for the deliberately misleading title. Rather than a whimsy about the renowned junk rig, I was inspired to…

The seas were quieter the next day, and after an early transit of Papa Sound we turned the corner to the south directly into a brisk head-on wind that, as predicted, increased to a Force 6 before dying back after we had moored up safely in Walls Harbour. Although the morning started with low cloud it descended further after we had set off, later complicating our situation with fog for a few hours. The area of The Deeps offered a safe hideaway and, lo and behold, as we turned the corner into Sandsound Voe the sun broke out to warm an alfresco lunch in the scenic anchorage of Tresta Voe. Our sailing week finished with a lovely reach down to Scalloway where we tied up at the Scalloway Boating Club pontoon to enjoy their well known hospitality.

We now await a crew change as three berths empty to be filled by new arrivals; replenishment of gas, water, fuel and food are our priorities. My morning has been spent sourcing electrical wire and a switch from the Scalloway Meat Company (the chandlery was shut) for a replacement anchor windlass remote; seawater had corroded the circuit board of the unit on board. Luckily this is not a new problem for Brian who has a spare after a previous crew had similar problems. My Heath Robinson unit works well enough to last until hand-back time in a week’s time.

All we have to do now is watch the weather and hope we get a good window for Fair Isle and Orkney.

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Jonty Pearce – Over the top at Muckle Flugga

Jonty Pearce takes a mixed bag of weather on the chin for a cracking cruise around Shetland and Orkney, including a rounding of Muckle Flugga

Jonty Pearce: We should have had more faith. At the end of last week’s blog our Penguin Cruising Club charter crew were on tenterhooks waiting to see whether our Sail Orkney Elan Impression 434 would be on the Lerwick small boat pontoon at 0800 after her overnight delivery from Kirkwall following a hasty sail drive change – the old one had melted. We were very relieved to see a smiling Brian and his crew who had already refreshed themselves with a good breakfast after an 0530 arrival.

After the usual handover – sorting, victualling, lunching, and general fiddling, including topping off with fuel and water – we finally left Lerwick for an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of Shetland. Our overall plan included a visit to Fair Isle before returning the boat to Kirkwall after visiting some of the north Orkney islands. Our companion boat, Reach North, was chartered from Shetland Yachting and had to be returned to Lerwick by club members afterwards.

We spent the first night anchored inside the north-east channel of Out Skerries. Fog delayed our start the next morning and it was midday before we set off into a brisk northerly Force 6; with two reefs in the mainsail and half the genoa rolled away our pointing was less than perfect, but a couple of long tacks took us into Balta Sound off Unst. It was a relief to drop the hook in Balta Harbour and sit back with a nice cuppa tea without half of it slopping out onto the cockpit floor. We slept well.

I was apprehensive about the winds and roosts (tide races) off the north of Unst, but the day dawned quiet with too little wind to sail. We timed the tide off Holm of Skaw perfectly and had a smooth passage west to Muckle Flugga and its outlier, Out Stack, which form the northernmost point of the British Isles. We passed between them, shutters clicking, before ‘showboating’ around Out Stack so we were able to say that we had sailed ‘over the top’ as well as getting iconic photos of Muckle Flugga lighthouse. We celebrated with chocolate Penguin biscuits (how tame!) before setting course southwest to Cullivoe Harbour in Bluemull Sound.

We were treated to close views of a pod of seven orcas as we continued down the west of Mainland Shetland past Eshaness Lighthouse on our way to Papa Stour. With a forecast blow on the way, we sheltered in Housa Voe to ride it out at anchor. It was not a peaceful night; while we let out our full ration of 50 metres of chain when the wind hit, Reach North dragged and spent half the night circling before they managed a good hold. After an anchor-watch disturbed sleep, and knowing that the near gale would have whipped up the treacherous waters west of Papa Stour, I ordered a day of rest with optional shore parties after the winds eased in the afternoon. The sun came out, and we soaked up the beautiful surroundings and caught up on sleep.

Cat man to give round Britain talk

£5 gets you a chair

Vertical Circumnavigator on home straight

Adrian Flanagan due back in Hamble next week after 30, 000 miles

Goss going for it

Repairs finished, pit stop over

Jonty Pearce: Efficiency Savings

In our dreams, and seeking pastures new, we sailed Aurial away to explore more of the myriad nooks and crannies…

Jonty Pearce: Junk rig?

I apologise for the deliberately misleading title. Rather than a whimsy about the renowned junk rig, I was inspired to…

The seas were quieter the next day, and after an early transit of Papa Sound we turned the corner to the south directly into a brisk head-on wind that, as predicted, increased to a Force 6 before dying back after we had moored up safely in Walls Harbour. Although the morning started with low cloud it descended further after we had set off, later complicating our situation with fog for a few hours. The area of The Deeps offered a safe hideaway and, lo and behold, as we turned the corner into Sandsound Voe the sun broke out to warm an alfresco lunch in the scenic anchorage of Tresta Voe. Our sailing week finished with a lovely reach down to Scalloway where we tied up at the Scalloway Boating Club pontoon to enjoy their well known hospitality.

We now await a crew change as three berths empty to be filled by new arrivals; replenishment of gas, water, fuel and food are our priorities. My morning has been spent sourcing electrical wire and a switch from the Scalloway Meat Company (the chandlery was shut) for a replacement anchor windlass remote; seawater had corroded the circuit board of the unit on board. Luckily this is not a new problem for Brian who has a spare after a previous crew had similar problems. My Heath Robinson unit works well enough to last until hand-back time in a week’s time.

All we have to do now is watch the weather and hope we get a good window for Fair Isle and Orkney.

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