Luck is holding for today. We have another beautiful day. We got underway from Scalloway with the game plan in place. We will motor around the southern tip of the Shetland Islands and then north up the east coast. The goal is to get to the best “jumping off” point for the. Crossing to Norway. All this because of a forecast of a sizable storm that we’ll have to deal with as we head east from the Shetlands.
We got underway with beautiful conditions.
Our first stop will be the ancient Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement . This is an amazing place with several layers of civilization. It contains more than 4,000 years of human settlement in the same location. Neolithic people first settled at this site in Shetland around 2700 BC, and it remained in use until the AD 1600s. Discoveries made here include oval-shaped Bronze Age houses, an Iron Age broch and wheelhouses, Norse long houses, a medieval farmstead, and a laird’s house dating from the 1500s.
After we all got back on board the BYR, we set sail and rounded the southern point and then headed north to the town of Lerwick. This will be our “jumping off point” for the crossing to Norway.
We did get to pass prehistoric Broch of Mousa along the way. A broch is a prehistoric stone tower and there are several in the Shetland Islands.
That’s it for this day of making our way around the Shetland Islands.