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Thu 11 June 2009
Back to Lerwick
Another early start saw us round Fitful and Sumburgh Heads and in to Lerwick by lunchtime.A few hours later we were joined alongside by "Southern Cross", a yacht from the Solent we had met on a few occasions in previous years. She had been on passage from the Faeroes to Norway but was driven south to Shetland by the northerly gale. The recent Marilyn-bagging activity had taken final toll on the Skipper's lightweight summer boots, which were replaced with something sturdier. We made a visit to Scalloway (photo of Shetland Bus memorial) and lunched on scallops in the excellent "Da Haaf" (old Norse word for ocean) restaurant in the Fisheries College. A Swedish three-master at Scalloway pier made a fine sight for visitors from the cruise liner berthed in Lerwick. The following day we hired a wee car and toured the north and west, allowing the Skipper to nip up the last two mainland Marilyns. Later we had a sociable evening with Sue and Matthew from Southern Cross, blethering until midnight when it was little more than dusk in this higher latitude.
Posted by skipper at June 11, 2009 10:22 AM