https://beingyonder.com/categories/2021-isles-of-scilly/ Recent content in 2021 Isles of Scilly on beingyonder Hugo en-gb Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:03:21 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/11/thursday-travel-home/ Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:03:21 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/11/thursday-travel-home/ Yesterday J injured her left big toe stumbling when coming from the snorkelling boat, and this morning the toe had swollen up and turned purple and walking was uncomfortable. J phoned 111 and spoke to a medic who advised, based on the fact that the toe shade was more inclined to purple than blue, that … Read more “Thursday: travel home” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/09/wednesday-snorkelling-with-seals/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:22:12 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/09/wednesday-snorkelling-with-seals/ Thick fog this morning. We got tickets for the 10:15 boat to St Martin’s. We’d booked a 1pm seal snorkelling trip from St Martin’s. While drinking a coffee on the quay waiting to board the ferry R received a text message from Viv at Scilly Seal Snorkelling saying they may not be able to run … Read more “Wednesday: Snorkelling with seals” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/08/tuesday-bryher/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:41:00 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/08/tuesday-bryher/ We walked down to the quay for 9:30 to see where today’s wildlife guided tour would be. Turned out there wasn’t one today, so we booked onto a boat trip around the Norrad (Northward) islands to look at seabirds, as the boat would drop us at Bryher afterwards. The boat didn’t leave until 11:15, so … Read more “Tuesday: Bryher” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/07/monday-st-agnes-and-gugh/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:01:02 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/07/monday-st-agnes-and-gugh/ We took sandwiches and R’s snorkelling gear and got on the 10:15 ferry to St Agnes. It was almost full. We landed at St Agnes. St Agnes is connected to Gugh by a sand bar that is exposed at low tide. The ferryman told us that the tide would cover it at 14:30, so we … Read more “Monday: St Agnes and Gugh” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/06/sunday-tresco/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:36:36 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/06/sunday-tresco/ We caught the 10:15 ferry to Tresco from the Quay in Hugh Town. The ferry dropped us at Carn Near at the southern point of Tresco. We walked up past the famous Abbey Gardens around the Great Pool (shelduck, coots, little grebes, Canada geese, heron, a confiding song thrush) to New Grimsby. Then across to … Read more “Sunday: Tresco” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/05/saturday-st-marys/ Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:00:32 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/05/saturday-st-marys/ The weather forecast predicted rain all day, so our initial plan of circumnavigating St Mary’s was aborted in favour of a shorter walk up the west coast. We climbed up to Harry’s Walls Battery, some kind of defensive rampart against the French, the construction of which was never completed. Further on we got to the … Read more “Saturday: St Mary’s” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/04/friday-fly-to-isles-of-scilly/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:19:36 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/04/friday-fly-to-isles-of-scilly/ We got on the 10:45 flight from Exeter airport to St Mary’s. The flight took about an hour. The weather was good so we had good views all the way. At one point we could see most of Dartmoor: On arrival a shuttle bus took us from the airport to our accommodation. We couldn’t get … Read more “Friday: fly to Isles of Scilly” https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/03/thursday-dartmoor-walk/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:37:10 +0100 https://beingyonder.com/2021/06/03/thursday-dartmoor-walk/ Yesterday evening we arrived at the NoBody Inn at Doddiscombsleigh. A poky room but nice pub and garden with good beer, good food and an interesting wine list. Today, Thursday, we drove 10 minutes to Steps Bridge and parked in the car park there. We walked along the side of the River Teign for the … Read more “Thursday: Dartmoor walk”