St Ninian's Isle

We disembarked the ferry this morning to a grey Lerwick covered in haar, ie sea mist.  We kept our fingers crossed it would lift and set off for the very south of the mainland to visit an iron age blockhouse fort accessed across some rocks with a helpful chain handrail. With the sun trying to come out   we then headed to one of the most famous beaches on Shetland. The sand bar to St Ninian's Isle.   The locals were having a regatta, racing old fashioned rowing  fishing boats . We wondered why it was so busy in the carpark. 
Blip is the sand bar.

Extra is -
• Son R on the chain walk
• The Ness of Burgi iron age blockhouse fort
• Picnic stop view of St Ninians chapel on the island with the sand bar in the distance. An amazing hoard of silver Pictish treasure was discovered in the chapel in the 1950s and is now in the museum in Edinburgh . I will seek it out when I'm next in Edinburgh.