St Kilda Archipeligo, Hirta and Boreray 19th June 2005 Photo Gallery by Steve Goldthorp at pbase.com

St Kilda Archipeligo, Hirta and Boreray 19th June 2005

On the afternoon of 18th June we left Barra for the St Kilda Archipeligo arriving in Village Bay at 0630 on the 19th June after sailing 80 miles. We slept for several hours and then disembarked by dingy to Hirta, the main island. Unfortunately the weather was overcast but it was just a pleasure and priviledge to be there at all! These photos are a record of our visit to these remarkable islands.

I hope you enjoy these photos and might visit St Kilda yourselves!
A fascinating online insight into life on St Kilda may be seen at the Glasgow University Digital Archives. A book entitled 'With Nature and a Camera' chapters 1-3 contains many photos and a wonderful text written in 1897 by one Richard Kearton. Please have a read!!

See the national Trust for Scotland website for full information: http://www.kilda.org.uk/
Cultural heritage of St Kilda: http://www.kilda.org.uk/kildanomdoc/level3p17.htm
Cleitean of St Kilda: http://www.pierreseche.com/cleitean_of_saint-kilda.htm
Film of St Kilda from 1928: http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/ss/films/ss2kilda.html
Poem: http://www.patchword.com/original/anthology/leaving_nb.html

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Barra International Airport	Tom, John and Alastair	First sighting of Hirta	First view of Boreray and Stac Lee
......and Levenish	Dun and Village Bay open up	IMG_1815IMG_0654b.jpg	Admiralty Chart for Hirta and Soay
Admiralty Chart for Boreray	From Clyde Cruising Club directions	Village Bay	Looking up 'main street' (crop)
Looking up 'main street'	Another view	Inside a cleit	Another view
Shaubau's map of 1860	Story behind Cleits	Main Street looking towards water tanks	Wind of gare in village bay
Dry stone wall	Soay sheep	Tiers of Cleits and the head wall	Soay sheep moulting!
Playing hard to get	Souterrain	Fern within	Stream
Memorial to Flora Gillies	Love birds	Stream to west of village	Main Street with head dyke
Alastair, John and Tom	Dun from main street	Looking back	Cleit with head dyke and village
Head dyke	Cleit and village area	Cleit on Mullach Mor with Dun beyond	Village showing burial ground
Cleit and main street	Village Bay	Oiseval and Village Bay	Stream under head dyke
Cleitean	Cleitean and Dun	Cleit with head wall	Black House ruin
Cleit with a view	Cleitean looking west	Alastair with cleitean	Main Street looking west
Ragged Soay sheep	Insde a long cleit	The story of the Kirk Bell and the S.S. Janet Cowan	Church window
Relaxing Soay sheep	Gun Dun	Boreray is 4 miles away	Stac Lee and Boreray

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Guest		09-Mar-2008 15:35
Hi Steve, nice pics. Image IMG_1815IMG_0654b.jpg is charter boat "Elizabeth G" which in 2005 was working for Northern Light Charters from Oban. Happy Sailing!

HHalal		16-Jan-2008 16:11
After seeing the 1937 film " Edge of Tommorow" about the crofters on Hirta, I came across yor picture site - Absolutley stunning & exciting ! Well done . We now plan on visiting this isle before departing this earth. Hal & Ardith - Atlanta, Georgia,USA and formerly from Nova Scotia, Canada

Neil Guthrie		14-Jan-2008 22:14
Nice gallery and presentation! V

Anne Craw		25-Oct-2007 22:39
A fascinating set of photos

Guest		12-Jul-2007 14:32
Most inclusive photos of St Kilda and Boreray that I have found on the Internet. Many thanks. Mike Wright Ottawa, Canada

Paul G		11-Jul-2006 15:22
I�m envious of you Steve, you have completed a trip of a life time and recorded some very nice images too.

Steve Goldthorp		03-Jul-2005 09:19
Hi Rod, Yes very unpredictable sitting 50 miles into the atlantic! But how very interesting - a window into a lifestyle lost (just as well!) Regards, Steve

Rod Ostoski		03-Jul-2005 04:11
Very interesting pictures. Love the history. Sure looks cold! Nice work.

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