I´ve already spent quite some time in Village Bay, but I at least wanted to see a bit of St Kilda from above. There wasn´t enough time to walk up the Conachair, so I chose the shorter but quite steep walk up to the Gap, to see some of the impressive cliffs. View of the […]
The first four or five cottages have been renovated and scientists or work parties live in them while working in St. Kilda. The scientists watch and record the local sheep, for example, all the sheep living in Kilda are wild, don´t get fed and are called Soay sheep. They are pretty tiny and curious like […]
I started heading towards the village, situated along one narrow lane. Along the way, I passed many more of the little stone storage huts, called cleit or cleitean (plural) and the factor´s house. St. Kilda had existed for centuries without much contact with the rest of the world, the islands were inhabited for around 2000 […]