We disembarked when the ferry docked at 7:30, and had a good breakfast in the Peerie Shop Cafe in Lerwick. Before that, we stopped to look at a bearded seal that was lying on the jetty next to the town centre car park.
After breakfast we stopped at the co-op to buy bread and cheese for lunch. It was before 10am, so sadly they refused to sell us a bottle of beer and a bottle of Highland Park.
We drove up to the ferry terminal and caught the ferry to Yell.
The weather was bright and breezy. We explored the east side of Yell.
At Burravoe we walked along the side of the Voe and up to the cliff edge and looked at fulmars sitting on nests and wheeling about.
Wild flowers were everywhere: thrift, purple orchids, yellow tormentil, lilac-coloured spring squill.
We drove on and stopped for lunch with a view of Fetlar.
We got the 16:00 ferry from Gutcher to Belmont on Unst.
We drove east past Clivocast and stopped at a large Neolithic standing stone and then at the ruined Muness castle. We went into the deserted castle. There were dark passageways on the ground floor, with various rooms opening out from them.
Next we went to Sandwick beach. Long and white, with a blue sea, terns diving into the water, and the remnants of a viking longhouse and farmstead.
Then we drove to the Baltasound Hotel.
We were checked in by a tall not-thin man in his 30s who spoke in a quietly posh English accent. The accommodation is in basic cabins, panelled in cheap pine, arranged in a U-shape around the main hotel building. The bar is open 18:00-21:30, dinner is 18:00-19:30.
After a just-edible dinner we walked down the road to the marina and along the edge of Balta Sound as far as the derelict Buness House. On the jetty by the house a fulmar was sitting on a nest.
We stopped for a while to watch curious seals in the water just off the jetty.
