Orkney Ferries
Posted in Shipping, Trips at 22:34 on 13 July 2017
We made the crossing to Orkney from Gills Bay in Caithness via the Pentland Ferries’ catamaran the Pentalina. It skelped along at a fair pace:-
Landfall was at St Margaret’s Hope, South Ronaldsay, the third largest settlement in Orkney:
Closer view of the town:-
This is the Northlink Ferries’ ship Hamnavoe in Hoy Sound on its way from Stromness to Scrabster:-
This video (click on picture to get to my flickr to play it) shows the Hamnavoe steaming through Hoy sound with Hoy in background. Unfortunately I zoomed in and as a result the focus went awry:-
Tags: Caithness, Orkney, Orkney from Gills Bay, Pentalina, Pentland Ferries, Scrabster, South Ronaldsay, St Margaret's Hope, Stromness
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