What a brilliant month spent in my favourite place Scotland!
Travelling up to Orkney a week early so that I could have a look round the island before the weeks diving in Scapa Flow began I found some fascinating stuff.
It really is an amazing place with the amount of ancient sites many of which I visited […]
As we drove up towards the Trotternish Peninsular and away from the busier south the natural beauty of the island and the mountains becomes more evident, as do the silly sheep and occasional highland cow who block the road at times. I am very cautious when edging my car past these very solid creatures, as […]
This was the dive that started off our weeks diving up in Skye and what a way to start the week, a photographer’s heaven……….stuff everywhere………and a fascinating wreck to boot!
The weeks diving on Skye was another Yorkshire Divers gig and about half of the group had arranged to meet up and dive the Port Napier […]
Having achieved one location that I had been wanting to dive for some time I moved on down to one of my favourite places, Skye. This was yet another Yorkshire Divers gig and I had been looking forward to it for a while having booked my place on it spring 2005!
I decided to drive […]
Diving Scapa Flow has been something I have wanted to do for some time. It was really a question of finding the right sort of trip as many are very ‘techie’ orientated. So I was delighted when Hazel skipper of Stormdrift decided to run a low key week aimed at people like me and advertised […]
Could you cook up something in this? Perhaps not a stir fry but how about a nice sheeps head…….. yum……..not
This is actually an iron age ‘cooking pot’, on the right is the fire. Stones would be heated in the fire and put in the ‘pot’ which was full of water. Eventually enough stones would be […]
I’ve done some strange things in my time but pulling myself into a stone-age burial chamber on a trolley that resembled a skateboard was a first!
Having arrived on Orkney via the ferry and Stromness one of the main things I wanted to do on was to visit some of the prehistoric sites that are on […]
With less than a mile to go to the next service station I felt the car stutter and knew I wasn’t going to make it.
I had been sitting in traffic jam on the M6 while the police, having taken down the central reservation, were diverting traffic from one carriageway to the other. A […]