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Boreray - combined with the two huge sea stacks, they are the breeding grounds for the world’s second largest gannet colony, numbering around 30,000 pairs. St Kildans regularly made the five mile boat journey to hunt the seabirds and built cleits to survive the treacherous sailings and weather that ravaged the archipelago. To venture to Boreray, you either visit via your arrival or departure boat from the island, a three or a four hour trip from the Outer Hebrides or Skye respectively. Having camped on Hirta for five nights, an extra night due to the weather causing a cancellation, we sailed towards ‘Fort Island’, its meaning in Norse.
‘Plain sailing’ is not a phrase used for any trips to St Kilda - 50% of the summer sailings are cancelled with half the year off limits - a fair few sick bags were being used by fellow sailors. All above us, birds were flying to and from the land and sea - the cry from the gannets was overwhelming. A cacophony of noise and stench that stung the nostrils from the guano and fish that lingered. An otherworldly experience seeing how extreme life is for the gannets - it felt like I was viewing a time before humans. An experience to treasure.
St Kilda - A remote set of islands, with double UNESCO World Heritage status, sitting 40 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Home to a million birds, this isolated archipelago was a joy to explore and photograph in the summer of 2019.
These images hark back to an ancient time, when humans relied on their natural neighbours to survive, with their only means of sustenance the birds that call the western edges home. A raw, harsh existence that became too much for the locals - abandoned by the final 36 islanders in 1930 - it is now a haven for birds, mammals and ocean dwellers.
A unique place that I documented over five days of walking, observing and absorbing all that these wild lands could throw at me.
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Boreray - combined with the two huge sea stacks, they are the breeding grounds for the world’s second largest gannet colony, numbering around 30,000 pairs. St Kildans regularly made the five mile boat journey to hunt the seabirds and built cleits to survive the treacherous sailings and weather that ravaged the archipelago. To venture to Boreray, you either visit via your arrival or departure boat from the island, a three or a four hour trip from the Outer Hebrides or Skye respectively. Having camped on Hirta for five nights, an extra night due to the weather causing a cancellation, we sailed towards ‘Fort Island’, its meaning in Norse.
‘Plain sailing’ is not a phrase used for any trips to St Kilda - 50% of the summer sailings are cancelled with half the year off limits - a fair few sick bags were being used by fellow sailors. All above us, birds were flying to and from the land and sea - the cry from the gannets was overwhelming. A cacophony of noise and stench that stung the nostrils from the guano and fish that lingered. An otherworldly experience seeing how extreme life is for the gannets - it felt like I was viewing a time before humans. An experience to treasure.
St Kilda - A remote set of islands, with double UNESCO World Heritage status, sitting 40 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Home to a million birds, this isolated archipelago was a joy to explore and photograph in the summer of 2019.
These images hark back to an ancient time, when humans relied on their natural neighbours to survive, with their only means of sustenance the birds that call the western edges home. A raw, harsh existence that became too much for the locals - abandoned by the final 36 islanders in 1930 - it is now a haven for birds, mammals and ocean dwellers.
A unique place that I documented over five days of walking, observing and absorbing all that these wild lands could throw at me.
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