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Published: June 22nd 2017
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Standing Stones of Stenness
About 5,000 years old the original 11 or 12 stones circled a hearth in the centre. Now five stones remain and there is much conjecture as to their purpose and use. Geo: 58.9804, -2.95626
After a 90min ferry ride from Thurso, when we had a fine buffet breakfast, we arrived at Stromness in the Orkneys. We spent the day (a little windy and slightly overcast, but still a bottler) visiting various sites around the island.
In the late afternoon we drove down to the very bottom of Orkney Island, driving over the four "Churchill Barriers" built in WWII to protect the British Fleet based in Scapa Flow from enemy maritime attack. The barriers also connect the closest southern islands to the "mainland".
Mike and Rhona returned to Thurso about 4pm. We stayed on to catch the 23:45pm overnight ferry to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands.
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Kerrie Lonn
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I guess its designed so that you could bunker down if the weather turned nasty. I would just pray it did not rollaway!