l managed to get 5 days camping on St Kilda in 2015. It's an impressive spot, logistically hard to get to because the sailings are often stopped by weather. This shot of Boraraigh and the smaller Stac Lee and Stac an Armin kind of sums up the isolation of place.
The main island, Hirta is where visitors normally spend their time. Everything is on a slope, the only flat bits are the floors of the old houses. #StKilda #Hirta #Boreray #Boraraigh #Scotland #Hebrides #Landscape #Seascape#Photography
Our lovely Boreray ewes this afternoon (well most of them) 😍
#SheepOfMastodon #boreray
St Kilda was evacuated OTD in 1930 and the men, women and children who lived on the island archipelago left their homes behind for the last time. It’s still one of Scotland’s most haunting places and a dual UNESCO world heritage site! #StKilda #WesternIsles #UNESCO #Scotland #Hirta #Boreray https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/2356496/silence-surrounds-mystical-st-kilda-90-years-after-mass-evacuation-of-residents/
Silence surrounds mystical St Kilda 90 years after mass evacuation of residents

The silence is the first thing that strikes you about St Kilda: the stillness around the dilapidated old buildings which once housed a thriving island

Press and Journal

Another new blogpost, this one relating to island depopulation.

"The last reason the most potent cause of all of the changes which we overtaking the western island peoples. The introduction of modern education has brought about a metamorphosis in the outlook the younger generation."

http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2022/11/migration-of-western-islanders.html

#hebrides #berneray #boreray #northuist #uist #weternisles #history #socialhistory #direcleit #islands #scotland #development #harristweed #fishing #machair #soundofharris

MIGRATION OF WESTERN ISLANDERS

There is more than a local significance in the complete migration of the inhabitants of the island of Boreray to a settlement provided by th...