Day 14: Packing and Party
Our priority today was to make sure that we were ready for Amy to pick us up and take us to the airport for our flight back to Shetland tomorrow. We cleaned the croft, packed and then went for a last wander; I had spent the last two weeks looking for whales and dolphins, without success, so this was also my last chance to sea watch. This place has the biggest clouds I saw many puffins on the sea... I saw a huge ship on the horizon... .....a lot of horizon...... ... but I did not see a whale! We spent our last evening with Steven. He made us a fantastic fish supper of haddock and lobster (from the Sunday catch). Showed us his collection of ancient objects and treated us to an extraordinary DJ set: never a dull moment on Fair Isle and always a surprise! We walked home at 11.30 and it was still quite light. As we walked we could hear the drumming of the snipe a very strange sound in deepening twilight! Listen to it here