06/08/2017 – View across to Dun Ban. Rubbish weather.
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Atmospheric weather, loving this place!
Similar to some of your recent stuff from further up north I think.
Nice site but the rain was so heavy :-(
I set out early most mornings and it was cloudy and started with a wee bit of drizzle. As the mornings progressed, on each day, the sun came out and it was really hot. St Kilda was unbelievably warm, sun tans for everybody and as for The Coffin Road, we walked its entirety, sun burned the backs of my legs getting rid of the Buchan Tan.
I'm enjoying seeing your photos from St Kilda. Did you get long on the island? We went to Mingulay last week which I very much enjoyed and maybe not a dissimilar vibe. It certainly whetted my appetite for a trip to St Kilda one day.
Just over 4 hours, during which I walked A and myself stupid (good result in the end:-) ). Hence the reason to go back. The viewing round the Stacs is unbelievable and a must a see. The overall vibe if you know the history of the (famous) St Kildans is one of why! The prehistoric folks probably lived in a warmer climate and seemed to travel back and fore to the mainland regularly. Sadly later inhabitants seemed not like fishing, had dodgy ministers (some of them were good), even dodgier housekeepers, horrible landlords, prone to disease which almost wiped them out, they never really left the island (when they did none of them really made it to Australia). Even when it was over in 1930 they moved them to near Inverness to work in the forestry, unbelievable as some of them had never seen a tree!!! When you first see Hirta Bay you will go wow, the whole place is like that. I didn't have a enough time.........................next time :-)
To be honest I know very little. I see there are quite a few books written about the history of the island and its people. I wonder if yourself or anyone could recommend any of them?
This from a link I posted on the main St. Kilda page a while ago
Martin Martin recorded that:
"The inhabitants of St Kilda, are much happier than the generality of mankind, as being almost the only people in the world who feel the sweetness of true liberty.”
Hi ryaner. Thanks for the reminder about the link you put up, I'd not seen it before. An amazing story and the website has some lovely photos of St Kilda.
Glad to have helped thelonious. It's a place I've often yearned to visit, and maybe stay a while. It's included in this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Remote_Islands a fun read and a boon for map lovers. The St. Kilda Wikipedia page you can link to from there is worth a look.
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These are, by far imo, the best books.
The Donald Gillies books are heartbreaking at best. Some of these where in our chalet in Rodel. When we landed at Hirta we immediately realised what he was writing about.
Hi Ryaner, you can stay in one of the renovated houses or alternatively you can camp.
ryaner - 'Atlas of Remote Islands' - I've got that book :-) Makes for nice daydream reading.
Drew - that's a fair section, thanks for the link.