Some people struggle but I've always been alright and they cancel the boat if it's really bad. That's just something you plan for here and it's usually fine - no one is in that much of a rush.I know people who take breaks abroad in that time!
Do you need good sea legs too? I imagine that wind you talk of can have quite an effect on the seas round there.
Island life!
I was wrong, the egg on the left is from one of Hylines. Caught her in the act today when I heard her screeching at Yellow Legs (who's twice as big and wouldn't tolerate that in many other situations) to wait her turn for the current favourite nest.
At least this hopefully means she's not started a secret nest somewhere though - I was getting suspicious since she's redder in the face than all my confirmed layers. I'll try to hang around tomorrow to work out who the wonky layer is and listen out for anyone emerging from a hidden nest.
I don't think I've read any of her work, so I'll have a look out. Thanks!fwiw, I've known about brochs for decades, since the 80s - thanks to Katharine Kerr, an excellent old guard fantasy author, who uses ancient Britain as inspiration for her Deverry series (which is excellent classic fantasy).
Brochs figure prominently. She does excellent research and they were communal living spaces and centers of leadership in her books, which is what current thought (at the time) believed them to be in use for.
I've visited a couple in Scotland. Iron Age Britain is probably my most favorite time period and landscape after the pre-pottery Neolithic.
*coughs in huge nerd* sorry
