Please email or phone to check that the tour is going ahead!

JULY

• 1 Wednesday    Kirkwall History Walk      10.00am

• 4 Saturday        Stromness History Walk  10.00am

• 8 Wednesday   Kirkwall Creepy Tour         7.00pm

• 11 Saturday      Kirkwall History Walk       2.00pm

• 14 Tuesday Stromness Creepy Tour   7.00pm

• 18 Saturday     Stromness History Walk   2.00pm

• 26 Sunday        Kirkwall Creepy Tour       7.00pm

• 28 Tuesday     Stromness Creepy Tour   7.00pm

• 29 Wednesday Kirkwall History Walk    2.00pm

AUGUST

• 12 Wednesday  Stromness History Walk   10.00am

Kirkwall History Walk          2.00pm

• 16 Sunday          Kirkwall Creepy Tour          7.00pm

• 18 Tuesday       Stromness Creepy Tour      7.00pm

• 23 Sunday        Stromness History Walk      2.00pm

Whilst I will endeavour to operate all of these tours, they may occasionally be cancelled due to external circumstances. Please phone or email to check that the tour is going ahead as scheduled.

Mount Everest was climbed before the Old Man of Hoy! This 450ft sea stack off the Orkney island of Hoy was scaled in 1966 by Chris Bonnington, Tom Patey and Rusty Baillie. It took three days to get to the top, and the wooden wedges they hammered in are still firmly in place. Edmund Hillary and Tezing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953.

Orkney sits between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea and is subjected to the turbulence of both! There are thought to be more than 5,000 shipwrecks in Orkney waters, victims of tide races, whirlpools, strong currents and treacherous skerries. (more…)