Platform supply vessel Skandi Foula passing the control tower to arrive in Aberdeen Harbour, Scotland's main oil industry support base.
23 January 2016
Disused wind turbine, Foula
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Disused wind turbine, Foula. It was said to be too windy for it, and it was taken down!
29 June 2014
Hellabrik's Wick and da Noup, Foula
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Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) glide over the cliffs at Hellabrik's Wick, Foula, with da Noup in the background.
29 June 2014
Da Sooth Ness lighthouse, Foula
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Da Sooth Ness lighthouse, Foula, with its solar array.
29 June 2014
Da Sooth Ness weather station
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Weather station at da Sooth Ness, Foula.
29 June 2014
Da Sooth Ness lighthouse, Foula
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Da Sooth Ness lighthouse, Foula, showing the solar panels which help to power it with renewable energy.
29 June 2014
Leraback, Foula
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Leraback, the only place on Foula where you can have dinner, bed and breakfast, nestling in one of the more sheltered parts of the island above Ham Voe. The windows have metal grid guards over them to prevent the glass from being broken by flying objects (such as wheelbarrows we were told!) in the winter gales.
30 June 2014
Leraback, Foula
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Leraback, the only place on Foula where you can have dinner, bed and breakfast, nestling in one of the more sheltered parts of the island above Ham Voe. In addition there is a stone-built self-catering chalet (on the right with a green roof).
27 June 2014
Weighted-down canoe, Foula
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A canoe weighted down with stones to prevent it blowing away in the wind, Foula
27 June 2014
Eider Duck family and Common seals, Ham Voe, Foula
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Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) family and Common seals (Phoca vitulina), Ham Voe, Foula