Here's a few images from a trip to the island of Stronsay. The round trip is just over three hours long, and on a March day which considered itself to be still in Winter, it probably required at least another two layers of clothing. Leaving Kirkwall at early o'clock Balfour Castle, Shapinsay Ships that pass in the early morning Helliar Holm Lighthouse Auskerry Lighthouse One of the Holms of Spurness, off Sanday The European Marine Energy Centre's tidal test site off Eday Seals on Little Green Holm, off Eday There's something ever so unnerving about a Cormorant with fascist leanings A less alarming view, once it had ceased drying its wings