Broch

This may not be to everyone's taste, but to me it captures the mood around this broch on the Loch of Houlland in Eshaness, taken on a day when the previous blue sky was really clouding over. Earlier, after quite a long drive from the cottage followed by an early lunch at the much (and correctly) lauded Braewick cafe (excellent ploughman's lunches, for the record), we had walked across to the clifftops from the lighthouse to the amazing grind of the navir (grind o' da navir in Shetlandese). This is a gap in the cliffs through which the storm waves have lifted enormous boulders and dumped them 15 metres above normal sea level. None of that sort of action on a day like today, which was deadpan flat, but the videos on the page to which I have linked give some idea of the power of the sea when a westerly is blowing.

I continue to be blown away (but not literally because the weather continues to be remarkably good) by this amazing place.