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Slow travel & photography

We made the last round around the St Kilda islands and stacks, where the men of St Kilda used to, came in the summertime to hunt birds. It is hard to imagine that they stayed in these rocky places in tiny bothies, sometimes for weeks or once even for months.

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Stac Lee

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Looking back towards Hirta and Soay

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Every year thousands of Puffins, Gannets and other birds spend their summer in the St Kilda archipelago to breed.

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Suddenly the clouds started to come in and the sea got a bit wilder.

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Am Plastair

 

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

Our boat ride back to Harris was a bit rougher and wilder than in the morning, but we arrived save and sound in Leverburgh. Accompanied by this guy for quite a while.

Saying good bye to Hirta, the biggest islands of the St Kilda archipelago. Visiting the stacks and islands and all the birds colonies.

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