Friday May 30th (evening post)

Well we have left St Kilda and are now in our way to the Faroe Islands. 

This distance is the biggest we have had so far between stops and we don't get in to Tvoroyri until early tomorrow afternoon so that means that I can have a sleep in in the morning and maybe catch up on washing etc in the morning – although there are a couple of lectures that I might attend.  The one on animal communications sounds somewhat interesting but I am not so sure about “the battle of the Atlantic 1939 – 1945”. Thinking about it though, maybe I should go to the second one because I know nothing about that! 

This afternoon we stopped at one of the other islands in the archipelago that makes up St Kilda 

to check out the world’s largest colony of Northern Gannets. 

 It really was bird city. If you look at the photos and zoom in on them, every white dot you can see is a bird. It would have been very uncomfortable for anyone who had a bird phobia.

 There were also seals on the rocks but we really weren't close enough to get good photos.