Looking through the thick entrance way of a centuries old home on St Kilda Recently, I have noticed that most everything written about St...

Fowling on the Scottish cliffs (Image courtesy of Trust for Scotland) "For the few men left on Hirta life was hard. Lachlan Macdonald...

Leaving the pier at St Kilda with wool sacks On August 27, 1930, a small group of men, women and children began ferrying a few precious belongings down to the island’s jetty. They carried sentimental items, a family photo perhaps, a hand-stitched pillowcase, a favorite teapot, and they took practical things such as spinning wheels and big bales of wool. They rounded up the island’s 500 remaining sheep and put them in rowboats a dozen at a time, and then lured the small herd o

Sketch of the Dunara Castle It is all but impossible to imagine what the remaining thirty-six St Kildans were feeling as the Dunara...

Depending your perspective, early summer is the perfect time to visit St Kilda. The Soay sheep are in their most unglamorous state as long ropes of tangled wool seem to drape from every inch of their body. By mid-July, they will have successfully rubbed it off using the countless miles of stone walls to scrape themselves clean.

St Kildan men and their sheep, note the difference in their facial markings Much of the interest in St Kilda revolves around the curious...

A woman and a young boy holding freshly caught fulmers. For just a moment, I try and imagine what it was like to grow-up on St Kilda...

Young ladies and girls on St Kilda, The women with white lace on the front of their headpiece indicates they are married Throughout much...