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Flower Picking in the Isles of Scilly Flower Picking in the Isles of Scilly A day among the narcissi fields with a rag-tag crew of islanders Tried my hand at Flower Picking today. The crew I worked with were a rag tag bunch of guys with good stories and a variety of quirks and unique experiences that they willingly shared with me. One guy, Dan, a Boat Captain in the Summer season, said "Ámerican? Don't they do this on the chain gangs in Louisiana prisons...picking flowers I mean"... Apparently I got high marks as I lasted the full day...The back breaking work sometimes has people quit as quickly as 40 minutes! The beautiful narcissi fields surrounded by protective hedges that ...

  2021, a year of Archipelagos for Sarah , Skyelark and me -Bahamas, Shetland, and next week IOS, Isles of Scilly. Actually Scilly is a ‘they’. An archipelago of 140 or so islands, islets and rocks. Where is it? When you reach Land’s End...keep going(by air or sea) 28 miles due South. We will be in St. Mary’s, the largest of the islands at 2½ miles by 1¾ miles. It is home to most of the people of the Isles of Scilly.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif)

  Left Fair Isle with Skyelark today. Sarah will follow by Plane... I will ferry the little Scottie across to Aberdeen then drive down south for 12 hours! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif)   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif)

Another glorious day on Fair Isle. Where? Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland. Situated in the Northern Atlantic, between Great Britain, the Faroe Islands, and Norway, it is the northernmost part of Scotland and the UK. And 24 miles from Shetland Mainland lies Britain's most remote inhabited island — Fair Isle.

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Where Scotland meets Scandinavia and the North Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean... Collected these memories in our trip reports: Not So Fair Isle. ANd Am ending this for a week until our return.   2020 and 2021  is hindsight and we were also the middle of the  global pandemic. Yet that didn't stop us from traveling. We took social distancing  to the nth degree and self isolated on Britain's most remote inhabited island , Fair Isle, population 45. Now 42 ,minus a dog named Skeylark too. But As Mac Arthur says, We Shall Return View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...

 

 The loneliest bull in the world on Britain's most remote inhabited island.  "I kissed a dog and I liked it" Carlos the Bull finds love at last, dating outside his species on Fair Isle.

 T he UAV can carry 100kg of mail of all sizes for a distance of 1,000km, and it was flown to our Fair Isle.  It  can fly in poor weather conditions, and if the trial is successful, the technology will be considered by Royal Mail.  A key aim is for the autonomous flights to reduce emissions compared to current delivery methods for a low carbon future. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif)