Today we took a trip to Hoy to experience the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre at Lyness.

Scapa Flow has got an amazing nautical heritage which began back in the days of the Vikings (and probably even earlier) although better known for the impact it had on naval warfare in both the first and second world wars. The Visitor Centre has more displays than you would hope to be able to read through; in our short visit as well as seeing the main exhibition we went to a disused oil tank (to put this in context, it was large enough to be a whispering gallery and had the acoustics to match) where films were running (projected onto a white painted patch on a side of the tank).

It would be wonderful to show some pictures of the views from the ferry as we went from mainland Orkney behind Flotta and to Hoy. However, we were in the passenger lounge below the car deck, with no windows (or even portholes!) so instead, here are a few pictures of the ferry!

To keep the theme of the day we are now settling down to watch David Lean’s film written by and starring Noel Coward, “In Which We Serve”!