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On Tuesday, the weather and conditions were good enough to track sheep in order to take away the males from the rest of the flock. With the help of six crofters (including three on quad bikes) and a few dogs, around 473 hectares of land in Holm field were covered. The task was to guide and gather the sheep spread all over the hills, into a sheep pen, take the males and free the others. While men on quad bikes drove all over the place, pushing the sheep in the right direction, crofters on foot circled the flock, guiding them towards the pen with huge help from their dogs. The job ended after two hours of tracking. Peter managed to find only one of his males out of three. They might be grazing a few miles away around Wester Quarf.
Above, Peter at work in Holm Field, Cunningsburgh.
Below a little bit of landscape photo of some places I recently went.
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St Ninian Beach in South Mainland, Bigton.
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Point of Fethaland, North Roe. It is the most Northern point of Mainland Shetland. Probably one of the most dramatic places I have ever been (at least in this kind of weather) and for no amount of money would I dive or swim there! I had my lunch at this place, looking at the movement of the sea. It looked like hell. However on the east coast of Fethaland, the sea was calm.
In Fethaland is the remains of an old fishing station. It is hard to believe that some people could live in such a place. But ... this will be the purpose of a future post.
