Well I sat our wirh a large glass of inspiration...no aurora, and a couple of flashes of shooting stars...whisky was good though..thanks Mick
M'off in the morning ... CT125 'Adventure Cub'
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Yesterdays sunshine recorder shows about six minutes worth. Can you spot it 
Thick pea souper this morning, but it gradually cleared through the morning, planes on standby at Tingwall, but it was thick there too. Not until early afternoon were they able to get two planes in to Fairisle and back out again.
So mid morning I walked up to the site of the Heinkel WWII crash site of 1941
I was here in the early eighties and the wreck has severely corroded much since then. All that remains are the two engines and part of the tail assembly ... it shouldn’t take much fixing though
Dave trying to find the photographs he took of the wreck site in the early seventies when he moved on to the island.
These are from this morning ...
200 yards away from the engines ...
I hope to get you some more photographs uploaded of the crash site taken fifty years ago!
Thick pea souper this morning, but it gradually cleared through the morning, planes on standby at Tingwall, but it was thick there too. Not until early afternoon were they able to get two planes in to Fairisle and back out again.
So mid morning I walked up to the site of the Heinkel WWII crash site of 1941
I was here in the early eighties and the wreck has severely corroded much since then. All that remains are the two engines and part of the tail assembly ... it shouldn’t take much fixing though
Dave trying to find the photographs he took of the wreck site in the early seventies when he moved on to the island.
These are from this morning ...
200 yards away from the engines ...
I hope to get you some more photographs uploaded of the crash site taken fifty years ago!
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Looks like a days work for Millyard;Yesterdays sunshine recorder shows about six minutes worth. Can you spot it
Thick pea souper this morning, but it gradually cleared through the morning, planes on standby at Tingwall, but it was thick there too. Not until early afternoon were they able to get two planes in to Fairisle and back out again.
So mid morning I walked up to the site of the Heinkel WWII crash site of 1941
I was here in the early eighties and the wreck has severely corroded much since then. All that remains are the two engines and part of the tail assembly ... it shouldn’t take much fixing though
Dave trying to find the photographs he took of the wreck site in the early seventies when he moved on to the island.
These are from this morning ...
200 yards away from the engines ...
I hope to get you some more photographs uploaded of the crash site taken fifty years ago!
Yesterdays sunshine recorder shows about six minutes worth. Can you spot it
Thick pea souper this morning, but it gradually cleared through the morning, planes on standby at Tingwall, but it was thick there too. Not until early afternoon were they able to get two planes in to Fairisle and back out again.
So mid morning I walked up to the site of the Heinkel WWII crash site of 1941
I was here in the early eighties and the wreck has severely corroded much since then. All that remains are the two engines and part of the tail assembly ... it shouldn’t take much fixing though
Dave trying to find the photographs he took of the wreck site in the early seventies when he moved on to the island.
These are from this morning ...
200 yards away from the engines ...
I hope to get you some more photographs uploaded of the crash site taken fifty years ago!
Mikeyboy would have that back like new in no time
Reference the sunshine record for Tuesday ...Post #142 this is the next days.
Spot the difference
Dave sub lets parts of his Croft to another Crofter. He can’t manage the work of crofting these day, at 81
Ian, his son and his girlfriend came down Tuesday morning to tag and worm some of their lambs on Dave’s croft.
Then a walk to the shop for ’supplies’ Past the Fairisle Surgery and resident nurses ‘office.’
Today I got the likkle Adventure Cub out and went for a ride ... to the south end of the island, and its lighthouse.
During an air raid in December 1941 the wife and daughter of the assistant lighthouse keeper were killed.
Fairisle cemetery close to the lighthouse ...
Daves wife Jane ...
A memorial for the Spanish Armada
Now heading north ...Fairisle's bank of Solar Panels. More anon
The north lighthouse. Now I’m not very good at off-roading, I fall off
The road, once past the bird observatory degenerates in to masses of loose gravel and potholes and is very narrow, and the locals drive far too fast!
The path to the old foghorn is unsafe and out of bounds ...
Sheep Rock from the lighthouse ...
The mast on the hill, highest point of Fairisle. There’s an old WWII ‘listening station’ up there, Dunno if we can make it up there, it’s an old track and gets messy. My bro has two replacement knees like me, but I had them first
This is the new bird observatory. The ‘old' one burnt down when faulty wiring in the roof from the solar panels set it all alight!
The smoke was first seen by The Good Shepherd while still at sea heading for Fairisle, and alarm raised. Two building contractors have gone bust building this new one, severely underestimating the time allowance for when you can’t get off of, or even on to, the island
One week on Fairisle can easily turn in to two or three weeks
I’m booked on the Good Shepherd Tuesday next week, then the Northlinks ferry from Lerwick to Aberdeen.
Spot the difference
Dave sub lets parts of his Croft to another Crofter. He can’t manage the work of crofting these day, at 81
Ian, his son and his girlfriend came down Tuesday morning to tag and worm some of their lambs on Dave’s croft.
Then a walk to the shop for ’supplies’ Past the Fairisle Surgery and resident nurses ‘office.’
Today I got the likkle Adventure Cub out and went for a ride ... to the south end of the island, and its lighthouse.
During an air raid in December 1941 the wife and daughter of the assistant lighthouse keeper were killed.
Fairisle cemetery close to the lighthouse ...
Daves wife Jane ...
A memorial for the Spanish Armada
Now heading north ...Fairisle's bank of Solar Panels. More anon
The north lighthouse. Now I’m not very good at off-roading, I fall off
The road, once past the bird observatory degenerates in to masses of loose gravel and potholes and is very narrow, and the locals drive far too fast!
The path to the old foghorn is unsafe and out of bounds ...
Sheep Rock from the lighthouse ...
The mast on the hill, highest point of Fairisle. There’s an old WWII ‘listening station’ up there, Dunno if we can make it up there, it’s an old track and gets messy. My bro has two replacement knees like me, but I had them first
This is the new bird observatory. The ‘old' one burnt down when faulty wiring in the roof from the solar panels set it all alight!
The smoke was first seen by The Good Shepherd while still at sea heading for Fairisle, and alarm raised. Two building contractors have gone bust building this new one, severely underestimating the time allowance for when you can’t get off of, or even on to, the island
One week on Fairisle can easily turn in to two or three weeks
I’m booked on the Good Shepherd Tuesday next week, then the Northlinks ferry from Lerwick to Aberdeen.
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Looks like a beautiful spot.
Have really enjoyed the write up and pics Micky
Selfishly hoping you get 'stranded' there for a couple more weeks so we can see more
Have really enjoyed the write up and pics Micky
Selfishly hoping you get 'stranded' there for a couple more weeks so we can see more
Perhaps show us the slot machines and rides?Looks like a beautiful spot.
Have really enjoyed the write up and pics Micky
Selfishly hoping you get 'stranded' there for a couple more weeks so we can see more
Just heard a bit about a new film, premiering in Edinburgh now, featuring a lot of Orkney.
The Outrun - Edinburgh International Film Festival
A vivid and unflinching adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s wrenching personal memoir of addiction, powered by an extraordinary central performance from Saoirse Ronan. Addicted to hedonism, drink and drugs, a young woman must wrestle with recovery in the remote islands of Orkney whilst reckoning with...
www.edfilmfest.org
Good to see a new observatory is being built, it must make a major difference to the island
Good to see you’re enjoying it
Good to see you’re enjoying it
What a great trip, proper adventure motorcycling.Pne of the best m'offs.
Dave restarts the old grandfather clock. Photo a little fuzzy ... but then so were we
Fairisle have their own ‘Fairisle Electricity Company Ltd’ It has a Committee of five. Dave is the unpaid company secretary.
The island was one of the first places to have a wind turbine back in 1986.
That was replaced some time ago and now has three wind turbines, only two working at the mo. They generate 60Kw each.
There is the bank of solar panels shown in an earlier photograph. All the electricity, wind and solar, goes in to a large lead acid battery bank and distributed from there. There is a generator that is called in to play when there is no wind, this generates up to 60Kw and starts up if the battery bank drops to 40%
At 10am this morning, f’rintance, ....
Solar panels generating 24Kw
Wind turbines generating one at 54Kw and one at 46Kw
The lead acid bank was at 78% charged and being charged.
The islands residents were using 20Kw
So there’s more electricity being generated than consumed. The excess goes to the crofts for heating if they want.
The battery bank at its inauguration ... the guy is Robert, the Company Chairman and Accountant. He runs the shop Stackhoul Stores with his wife Fiona. She is Airstrip Deputy Manager (Dave is Manager) and she also drives the fire engine, which has to be out and ready each time a plane comes in, with the rest of the fire crew, who are on pager alert. The fire engine serves the island.
Just thought you might be interest
As an aside, the crofts are billed for their electricity as you and I are. Dave pays £280 for a Quarter.
The island was one of the first places to have a wind turbine back in 1986.
That was replaced some time ago and now has three wind turbines, only two working at the mo. They generate 60Kw each.
There is the bank of solar panels shown in an earlier photograph. All the electricity, wind and solar, goes in to a large lead acid battery bank and distributed from there. There is a generator that is called in to play when there is no wind, this generates up to 60Kw and starts up if the battery bank drops to 40%
At 10am this morning, f’rintance, ....
Solar panels generating 24Kw
Wind turbines generating one at 54Kw and one at 46Kw
The lead acid bank was at 78% charged and being charged.
The islands residents were using 20Kw
So there’s more electricity being generated than consumed. The excess goes to the crofts for heating if they want.
The battery bank at its inauguration ... the guy is Robert, the Company Chairman and Accountant. He runs the shop Stackhoul Stores with his wife Fiona. She is Airstrip Deputy Manager (Dave is Manager) and she also drives the fire engine, which has to be out and ready each time a plane comes in, with the rest of the fire crew, who are on pager alert. The fire engine serves the island.
Just thought you might be interest
As an aside, the crofts are billed for their electricity as you and I are. Dave pays £280 for a Quarter.
Young Dave certainly has his fingers in a lot of pies!
Which is brilliant in a small community like theirs!
Oh, and not the sort of lead acid batteries I was expecting. Not sure what that was, but it wasn’t that.
Which is brilliant in a small community like theirs!
Oh, and not the sort of lead acid batteries I was expecting. Not sure what that was, but it wasn’t that.
He certainly has. He’s been there over fifty years and is the third oldest resident. All the crofters have had to turn to second occupations to make a living.Young Dave certainly has his fingers in a lot of pies!
Which is brilliant in a small community like theirs!
Oh, and not the sort of lead acid batteries I was expecting. Not sure what that was, but it wasn’t that.
Yes, I didn’t know what to expect either with a battery bank. I thought maybe a couple of batteries the size of a washing machine
but this is recognised procedure. If a battery goes faulty it can be isolated and replaced in due course, no immediate urgency! They produce their own distilled water and one of the islanders is employed to service/check the whole caboodle 
Those batteries are over knee high and quite substantial!
Absolutely fascinating. What a wonderful life.
He certainly has. He’s been there over fifty years and is the third oldest resident. All the crofters have had to turn to second occupations to make a living.
Yes, I didn’t know what to expect either with a battery bank. I thought maybe a couple of batteries the size of a washing machine
Those batteries are over knee high and quite substantial!
A bit like the batteries in a conventional submarine.
Hmmm...2 seasons, winter and July...There’s certainly a LOT more to an island community than I’d ever considered.
A great story.
And thanks for the History + Geography lesson.
And thanks for the History + Geography lesson.
