Out and about- Shetland

Skeld Kirk

Food anyone

Old Boat Westerwick

Old Croft

 

Westerwick- Shetland

 Westerwick is a superb place with lots of stacks, caves and beaches. After passing through Skeld make sure you dont miss the right fork to the site

There is only room for 4/5 cars and it can be full so yu would have to park back at the croft down the hill.

The sun really does bring out the colour in the sandstone cliffs.

Norwegian Corvette visits Shetland

 Norwegian Navy Corvette in Lerwick, Shetland the other week.

Skjold-class corvettes (skjold means "shield" in Norwegian) are a class of six light, superfast, stealth missile corvettes in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy.

The boats were formerly classed as MTBs (motor torpedo boats) but, from 2009, the Royal Norwegian Navy has described them as corvettes (korvett) because their seaworthiness is seen as comparable to corvettes, and because they do not carry torpedoes.

They were built at the Umoe Mandal yard. With a maximum speed of 60 knots (110 km/h), the Skjold-class corvettes were the fastest combat ships afloat at the time of their introduction.

Shetland & Norway link

 Happy Norway day

Strengthened by the Second World War and the Shetland Bus operation which operated from Scalloway.

Hitra- WW2 Shetland bus

The Hitra was down to come across with the Norwegian convoy to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE day

Unfortunately it didn't make the journey so these photos are from its last visit in 2018

This is one of 3 subchasers that operated out of Scalloway in Shetland