Today we went to the Walls show! It only happens once a year so we are very excited about having had the opportunity to go.
Joseph meandered around recording all the various sounds of animals, Shetland dialects, triumphant roars of the Viking Jarlsquad (whose true purpose becomes clear during the Up Helly Aa fire festival in winter) and general atmosphere, meanwhile I went a bit crazy photographing animals.
A menagerie of sounds and images…
After that we took the opportunity of doing another short walk from our list of westside walks as we were so close by. We went to Kinkwall, meadows filled with wildflowers and cows, where I gathered flower specimens.
The we went to Mid Walls, where we found an ancient abandoned croft
next to a burn and Joseph stretched out to record it burbling away.
We walked to the edge of the voe (Shetland word for fjord) to see Foula in the distance.
