At St Kilda

Trying to find a fresh image of St Kilda that isn’t just the row of abandoned village houses built in the 1860s;  it’s actually not hard as the cottages are used so frequently as a signifier of the end of St Kilda whereas what dominates here are the cleits which are the signifiers of the continuum before that.   They were built as storage and for animals but were also lived in.

I’ll expand this entry later when I have better Wi-fi than we have here on Harris. Currently dropping this via the iPhone app

The other thing I wanted to say was that almost the most powerful sight of the day was the towering Stacs or sea cliffs alongside the island of Hirta, St Kilda being the name of the archipelago.  We spent an hour moving amongst them in the evening and the amount of birds wheeling above us was astounding.  It felt like CGI!  What was also astonishing was that the St Kildans used to live on them when they were collecting sea birds and eggs and you could see little cleits on the tiniest of ledges.