Hoy – an old man and a dwarfie

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We took the ferry on a blustery day over to Hoy

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It wasn’t raining but Hoy looked like she had her own weather

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We set off for the Old Man of Hoy -an hour’s walk or so along a lovely coast path

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Most of Hoy seems to be made of peat

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The Old Man is impressive and very tall – 136m – and home to many seagulls – we saw skuas but no puffins

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It’s a long way down

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There are tiny pretty orchids

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As we came back the sun shone and we enjoyed the wonderful views

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We visited an old croft – we seem to be visiting a lot of stone houses these days

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The sheep have a fantastic view

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Frances found an old harrower

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And after a sunny picnic we walked over to the Dwarfie Stane – a monolith that has been carved out to make a chamber – inside there is a bed area and another tiny room – it was made around 3000BC.

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I was the only one who went inside

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While we were there we spotted sea eagles flying into their nest in the cliffs.

I also saw red-throated divers later.

The rain returned and we visited the lifeboat museum – where they have a 1930s lifeboat and a memorial to the 8 crew of the lifeboat who were lost in mountainous seas in 1969.

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