Calders Geo, Shetland June 25, 2015
A huge cave in Calders Geo on the west coast of Eshaness, Shetland.
Exploring Britain's biggest sea cave - Calders Geo in Shetland.
Time for a bit of wild swimming!
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Shetland Islands: Scalloway, Scotland
Recorded September 2, 2008.
Shetland is an archipelago in Scotland, off the northeast coast. The islands lie to the northeast of Orkney, 170 miles from the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The largest island, known as Mainland, has an area of 374 square miles, making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth-largest of the British Isles. Scalloway is the largest settlement on the North Atlantic coast of Mainland, Shetland with a population of approximately 812. Until 1708 it was the capital of the Shetland Islands. Scalloway Castle was built from 1599 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney to tighten his grip on Shetland. Its site in Shetland's then capital, Scalloway, was surrounded by the sea on three sides.
My tour of the Shetland Islands continues in this video as we make our way to Scalloway.
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Stormy day from Muckle Bousta
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Killer whales in Hos Wick, Shetland, from SY Sonar
Link to full clip here!
Laura spotted the whales from the kitchen window this morning while I was on my way to town with the kids. A quick about turn we we're rewarded with a fine display of the Orcas at close quarters from our 19ft yacht.
SHETLAND SEA CAVE
Sea cave at hillswick in st magnus bay. Boat is 14 long aluminium with 50hp honda made it myself. very shallow draght boat. perfect for exploring.
A walk around the Hill of Steinswall and Njugal's Water, Shetland
A brief video of my Christmas Eve walk from Scalloway around the Hill of Steinswall and Njugal's Water. 2 hours and 8km over the hills, heather and bog in gale force winds from my front door. Apologies for the voice level, the wind was just too strong most of the time for the camera to pick it up.
Video filmed with a polaroid xs100 and still with a Nikon D3100
Music by Eddie Vedder from' Into the Wild' sound track
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Shetland Fishing Villages (1970-1979)
Shetland Island.
Karen Bravo, a ship in the sea. Fishing boats in a harbour. Karen Bravo coming into dock. Western geophysical appears on the side of the ship. Offshore marine appears on the back of boiler suits worn by two men working on the ship. Pan across hills at waters edge. seagulls in the foreground, Small fishing boats Rough seas. Pan along small seaside town, misty veil over the town. Waves crashing on rocks. LS Hundreds of seagulls follow a fishing boat heading to shore, town in the background. Pan across picturesque view of hills and harbour, fishing boats in still water. Castle ruins on the shore line, part of the small town.
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Lerwick fish market
stills from the fish market. 8 Nov 2010. Kodak ZX3 play sport
Tipical Shetland weather part 1
Water
Killer Whales In Shetland 2012
We got some good footage of killer whales (Orcas) off the coast of Shetland
Shetland USMC 2013
Mesmerized, invigorated and drunken from life.
A little film by Regina Mosch.
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The Shetlanders - the running jeweller
Sophie Whitehead is one of life’s enthusiasts. About running, about her friends, about her jewellery, about Shetland, about life. Her laugh erupts regularly, and almost seismically. Her Instagram feed, the appropriately-named @sophie_sunshine28, is like a paid-for advert for life in Shetland: clifftop walks, kayaking trips, nights in stone bothies and midnight trips to the Broch of Mousa, Scotland’s best-preserved Iron Age broch. Except hers is entirely authentic.
We first meet at Shetland Jewellery, Sophie’s day job, where she designs and makes jewellery inspired by the islands. She’s part of a team of ten, who work in a little pebbledash workshop overlooking the tranquil Hellister Loch near the village of Weisdale.
Shetland Jewellery has been going since 1953, and the team design and hand-make more than 40 ranges of jewellery, which take their cues from everything from Norse mythology to maps of Shetland, Fair Isle knitting patterns or the ‘Simmermal Dance’, the Shetland phrase for the shimmering haze on a hot day. Reflecting Shetland itself, most of the ranges have Celtic or Viking influences.
Sophie’s personal designs include the Peerie Smoorikins (“little kisses”) range, with its silver hearts, and a range of bracelets, pendants and rings inspired by the Mirrie Dancers, the Shetland word for the Northern Lights. “We’re just trying to grasp a little bit of Shetland with our designs,” she says.
Sophie’s accent—Northeast of England, with a few Shetland twangs and phrases—betrays the fact that she isn’t a native. She grew up in Northumberland, and got to know Shetland from coming here with her father, a musician. After an art foundation course in Newcastle, she “hassled” Shetland Jewellery to give her an apprenticeship, and moved up at the age of 19. “It was a culture shock,” she says. “But, despite there not being as much clubbing as I was used to in Newcastle, there was a lot of partying. Every weekend we were out doing something—meeting people, listening to music.”
The reason Sophie has stayed so long in Shetland comes down to a lot of things, she says—the scenery, the creativity, the beautiful commute—but most of all it comes down to people, and friendship. “My friends here are just amazing,” she says. “They’re always there for me, and up for going on little adventures.” It’s been that way since she arrived as the new girl from Northumberland. “People here are really welcoming, especially with new people. No one likes you feeling left out, so you’re welcomed into peoples’ homes, invited to weddings, that kind of thing. Everyone just wants you to feel welcome, and wants you to be part of it.”
But perhaps the most telling glimpse of Sophie’s Shetland comes the following week. On the Tuesday night, we ask Sophie if she might be able to gather a few friends for a shoot the following night at St Ninian’s, the beach and island that might be Shetland’s most famous beauty spot.
Expecting just a few folk to turn up, the following evening motorbikes, cars and camper vans converge on the little car park overlooking the beach. At almost no notice, Sophie has gathered a crew of around twenty people, who turn up with bags of firewood, barbecue meat and craft beer from the Valhalla Brewery, Britain’s northernmost brewery on the island of Unst. “These are my mates,” she says, proudly gesturing at the crew she’s assembled as they troop down to the beach, ready to build a bonfire. Then she lets out one of her big laughs.
Sophie’s friends are indeed welcoming and friendly, including Kaylee, who is back from Buckingham Palace with tales of meeting Camilla Parker-Bowles, and being the only member of the coastguard to turn up in a frock rather than her coastguard getup. We’re treated like part of the group, not outsiders.
Sophie describes the vibe amongst her friends as “that cosy Sunday lunch feeling”, and there is something special about sitting around that bonfire, with the summer sun lowering behind the absurdly beautiful St Ninian’s Isle, at the end of the white-sand spit (or tombolo, to use the proper term).
As we drive away to catch the ferry, we see Sophie and a group of her mates head towards the water, splashing around and taking selfies as the sun sets, with the summer’s evening giving way to what locals call the “simmer dim”, when it never gets truly dark. This seems like Sophie’s happy place—and it looks like a pretty nice place to be.
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Shetland Foamy
Britain's most northerly foamy hero Herman - first run at Gremista, Lerwick on 2nd January 2007.
The Shetlanders - The Boat Builder
Like a lot of Shetlanders, Ryan Stevenson quietly has a few strings to his proverbial bow. He plays a mean fiddle, and was once named Shetland’s Young Traditional Fiddler of the Year. He sails, rows traditional yoal rowing boats, and is a trustee at Shetland Arts, the fund behind many of the islands’ cultural institutions, from galleries to theatres and an indie-focused cinema.
More than this, though, aged just 25 he’s also at the forefront of something remarkable — a new era of boat-building on an archipelago where so much of life, and work, revolves around the sea. Ryan is the project manager of a new boat-building department at Malakoff, Shetland’s oldest marine engineering firm. The company started life as a shipyard around 140 years ago, and has diversified over the years into everything from pipework to ship repairs, renewable energy, designing and building piers, or providing specialist divers for Shetland’s aquaculture, fishing and oil industries.
We meet in a vast warehouse on Lerwick’s northern edge, whose sole occupant is a 14-metre steel catamaran, unpainted, unfinished and surrounded by canisters and wires. It’s the second boat commissioned by Cooke Aquaculture, a leading Scottish salmon farming company, and it’s symbolic of how one thriving local industry is helping another to boom.
Ever since the first Vikings arrived towards the end of the ninth century, boats have been part of life here, most notably the Shetland yoal, a wooden rowing boat used by local fishermen from at least the 17th century. The yoal hasn’t just become an iconic symbol of the islands, fascinating artists as much as historians, but the tradition has been kept active in recent years by yoal rowing and sailing clubs across the islands, who host regular regattas.
But Malakoff is starting a more forward-looking tradition, designing and building boats made very much for today’s industry. It has now built more than 200 small aluminium voe boats, designed especially for tending to salmon farms or mussel hatcheries. The boat in the warehouse is its 23rd larger, more complicated steel vessel. Previous Malakoff creations include a west coast ferry commissioned by Caledonian Maritime Assets, the company that also oversee the ferries to Orkney and Shetland from the Scottish Mainland. While even the yoal was originally based on Norwegian designs, these Malakoff boats are 100 per cent designed and made in Shetland.
“The aquaculture and fishing industry are bringing a lot of money into Shetland at the moment,” says Ryan. “We’ve always been part of that, but now we want to actually build some of the boats that they’re using. Ultimately, we want to keep more jobs, and more investment, in Shetland, and it feels like an exciting time for that.”
Heading up a game-changing department in one of Shetland’s most important companies isn’t all Ryan does. He originally became involved with Shetland Arts while playing the fiddle at high school. The funding body paid for Ryan and other students to go to the Hebridean Celtic Festival as session musicians, and he later got involved with Shetland Arts’ Young Promoters Group and Young Tradition Bearers project. Since 2016, he’s been a board member, reviewing business plans and accounts, and helping to make strategic decisions about how the arts are funded in Shetland.
He studied mechanical engineering at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, but was back every holiday, getting his boat ticket so that he could work as a skipper on a Malakoff safety boat at the Sullom Voe oil terminal. Not long after he left university, a job came up at Malakoff’s welding department, which linked to Ryan’s most recent research project.
Like an increasing number of young Shetlanders who leave the islands to study, Ryan’s intention was always to come back. “I enjoyed being the city, but it was always a relief to get back, to get out on the boat and breathe the fresh air.”
He is keen to play up the fact that Shetland life isn’t just about gazing at grey seas and crofting, though. “When I was in Glasgow, people would say: What do you actually do? The answer, for me, is sailing, rowing, kayaking, being outdoors, being involved with local arts and culture. You’ve got amazing leisure centres, and the cinema and the gigs at Mareel… there’s so much that goes on. I think there’s probably still a perception that Shetland is a backward place, but I think if people come to Shetland they’ll see that that’s simply not true. It’s an amazing place to live.”
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Fine frosty February morning around Lerwick in the Shetland Islands
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Just on a walk around a few streets of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands on a fine frosty morning. Down to the waterfront at the new 5-star Shetland Museum and finishing up at the Gilbertson football pitch.