Feathered friends
It’s always a pleasure to watch seabirds, and you can get very close to them under sail – but it’s also saddening how the numbers have diminished over the years I’ve been sailing in our voe.
The show starts at the marina, with the tirricks, or Arctic terns, which nest in its rocky wall and come out to dive for fish. They’re such delicate-looking birds with their sickle wings and forked
