Diary of a Deckhand

Home is such a strange concept. My home is currently the boat, so technically I am always at home. However, it is also my work, so does that mean I am always at work too. Hmm. I always know somewhere needs painting, I tell you the Forth bridge has nothing on a boat. But we are back in Stromness, which is probably classed as true home.

Shetland was such a nice place, the harbour is brilliant with allocated berths and big fat tyres chained along its metal facings to protect the boats. The only downside was it was just 16amp power meaning that our showers would trip it off, but other than that, stunnning.
I remember coming to Orkney for the first time all those years ago and feeling that it was a place i could easily live, or more to the point, that I actually wanted to live in. So many folks seem to go on their holidays and fall in love with wherever they go, buy a house and find that being a tourist and living there are so very different. Orkney however seemed to be different, good thing i am right every now and again huh? Well Shetland felt the same, somewhere I could live and be happy. Who knows what the future holds (other than taxes and fuel prices going up).

Massive thanks must go to Jeemy Wiseman for coming out with us several days and telling us so much about the islands of which he is so immensley proud.

On our first day off we hired a car and went exploring, checking out places we could possibly take the boat into, piers etc. I took the camera along so here are my pics.