Magical Mousa Broch

 Yesterday 18/05/2022, we stayed up late and took the Mousa Boat  over to Mousa to see the Storm Petrels that nest in the Mousa Broch and other locations on the Island, was a bit concerned that the trip may get cancelled as the days leading up to it were very windy, however on arrival at about 21.40 the wind had miraculously disappeared and the water looked lovely and flat, we were treated to a pretty impressive sunset. Some of mine and Margie's pics below

 We boarded and made the short crossing to Mousa, rather bouncy, turned out the wind hadn't disappeared but had been hiding around the corner!!!

We arrived on Mousa, split into two groups we headed towards the Broch.

The Broch

We arrived at the Broch

I'd like to tell you all about it's history, but unfortunately while the guide was giving his spiel, I wasn't really listening as I was watching the amazing Storm Petrels whizzing around the Brock!!! The video below gives an impression of what it was like.

We were allowed into the Brock and made our way up to the top, we had great if gloomy, it was about 23.00hrs at this point, views of Stormies zipping about, then we had the highlight of the trip when one of the birds hit Margie's leg, scrabbled around on the floor, before disappearing into it's hole, I managed a very short video as I tried not to step on it!!!!

Superb stuff, after a while we made the 20 minute trek back to the boat with the birds calling from all around, a wall near the dock seemed to be singing to us, it was amazing. The boat trip back wasn't as rough and we were back in our apartment just after 1 o'clock in the morning! 

A trip that will live long in the memory!!