Honeymoon

 We said goodbye to our fabulous guests, Jaimie and John ( great to meet you) and Joseph and Julia ( super young couple from Golders Green). We sorted the washing and cleaning and had an evening at Melby. 17 common terns and still plenty of Purple Sandpipers, some in full summer plumage 

Today we had four new guests coming in, so we did our chores early and decided to try and find puffins at Sumburgh. Plenty on the sea, but only 1 on the cliffs. Good numbers of razorbills and a showy raven 

Then we headed North checking out several spots. Jill got a Shetland tick, Greenshank, but too far away for photos.

Tonight's guests are amazing a lovely couple from Germany Brigit and Maurice ( think I have spelt both wrong!) and Kirsten and Freddie from Canada and Berlin, who have come to us on their honeymoon. We ordered a sunset specially.

Tale of talented folk- two Marks

 It's been a fascinating week with our guests. Mark and Laura from Seattle felt like long lost friends, we did so much chatting, awesome. Mark is a drone instructor and did some amazing footage of the house. He also let Rob have a wee go- he's hooked now.

We were sad to see them go.

Then another Mark arrived from Essex. Really interesting chap as he is a content creator for YouTube, also using the same drone!! He records using go pros too as well, while travelling through we world with his wife, on his Harley.

His YouTube channel is called Lean into the wind and it's really good. He even writes some of his own music for it. Take a look, well hopefully be on it soon.

We also had our first South African guests and a super lady called Donna who lives on Papa Stour.

Today we managed to squeeze in a couple of hours at Melby. beautiful light after the snow cleared through.