26.09.2011 – 26.09.2011  15 °C

I had an early start today as the sun woke me up early-ish (7am) so I jumped up grabbed my camera and took some photos of the sun rising over the bay! The view is pretty nice from our digs.. rabbits are playing in the back yard, seals are swimming in the bay and sheep are dotted over the hills behind the house… pretty sweet!

After having brekky we started by wandering down to the bay to see the seals at play. The seals here in this bay are very inquisitive; the whole time we were wandering the shore and taking photos of them they were swimming just off shore and watching our every move! Just awesome. We continued along the bay southward (clambering through neighbouring paddocks- over barbed wire fences etc) with our friendly seals following our every move! We finally got sick of climbing through thick grass and through mud so returned to our digs to eat some lunch before setting out in the car for the western side of the isle in search of otters.

Sea otters are some of the other inhabitants on the island but apparently quite difficult to see, however, armed with our trusty guide map of the island, we thought we were a shoe in to see some of the cute brown little dudes… No such luck! We drove to all of the likely spots but couldn’t see any little otters!! We also discovered that any sort of refreshment was out of the question as the only real shops are in Lerwick.. the other ‘towns’ that are listed on the map are just 1 or 2 houses grouped together!!!! It reminded me of looking at a map of Australia thinking that a coffee shop is going to be available in of all the ‘towns’ that are out in the outback!! 

During our drive, the rain started (surprise, surprise) so we were also treated to a beautiful rainbow with the pot of gold only a couple of meters from the car!!! I didn’t want to deprive the leprechauns of their gold so didn’t bother to get out of the car. Finally, as the sun was setting, we left the western side of the island to return to our digs and a tasty home cooked stir fry!