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01. August 2020

Exploring Westray and sailing to Fair Isle

Dirtroad to Noup Head on the folding bicycle

Free range, bio and cage keeping?!

Light house of Noup Head

Hundreds of nesting Gannets, gulls and puffins

Nesting on small ledges

One can smell them one mile against the wind

Noup Head

Seals playing in the surf

Blocked road by swans

Swan chicks

A low presser passes over the Orkney Islands

Strong wind

A lot of energy from the wind generator

Protected harbor

Swinging boats

Bay of Pierowall

Juicy steaks

Refueling 400 litres of red diesel (usually for fishing vessels, 0.62 GBP per litre)

Filling with 16 cans of diesel

Heading of into strong winds

Reefing and adjusting the sails

Thanks to 2 knots of currend the waves are flatter

Crossing the path of a big ferry

Surfing with the waves

Involuntarily triggering the life vest

Finally entering the safe harbour of Fair Isle

Heavy fendering along the concret dock

Exchanging the Orkney with the Shetland flag

Quiet harbor with little swell

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