Island Travel Nurse

We are closer to Norway than we are to Edinburgh, Yet Shetland is part of Scotland, and Britan's most remote inhabited island.  What a gem this Fair Isle is, and to honor it,  Sarah and I have continued to post in this blog Sharefairisle.com Had to take the plunge today, and brave the frigid waters. It was invigorating to dive head first into the ocean. It is also a constant reminder of the beauty and power over life and death. It would be hard to stay more than a few minutes submerged. Sarah went looking for Puffins. The are nesting for two.mpre weeks so there is an urgency to find them. Stock Photo-no stolen valor here- We are on a photo safari for our own cinematic golden kodak moment Skyelark is enjoying her new neighbors, the 1000s of sheep...and a few hundred bunnies too. We witnessed the sheep dogs corralling a herd. ' It was sublime...no photos  or video this time, as we wanted to experience this organically, plus we didn't want to stop a dog from working! S...

Where Scotland meets Scandinavia and the North Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean, lies the Shetland Archipelago...  We will soon be off on our Adventure-back to Fair Isle. Here is a look back at our first trip : Fair Isle, Shetlands  UK Britain's most remote inhabited island. We flew in this morning (December 2020). It feels like we are walking into a painting. Think Norway meets Hawaiian islands and Father Time and Mother Nature have a field day.   No man is an island, as John Donne wrote, but, north of the border, you can live on one. Scotland's. The Shetland's is good like that, with 15 inhabited ones to choose from. We are here in Fair Isle. Britian's most remote one. It feels like we are moving through paintings as the ever changing weather lights the landscape in unique and splendid ways. Thanks to the popularity of the TV Series Shetland, we have had  it on our radar as places to visit this year.   Of all the 115 islands  in the archipelago,...

From A to Z: A World Traveler's Journey From A to Z: Adventure Beyond Plan B Exploring Shetland & Fair Isle during the Pandemic The breathtaking landscape of the Shetland Islands During the Pandemic, you can't just have a Plan B. How about the rest of the alphabet? We took Plan S: Shetland and Britain's most remote inhabited island—Fair Isle. Note: Not "Shetlands" - The Vikings clearly thought of Shetland as a 'land' Redefining Expedition History It is very important that expedition history not be distilled to just those great men and women like Magellan, Edmund Hillary, Lewis and Clark et al., but to the regular folk—like Sarah and Ed (Us) who go out to ...

Fair Isle - Britain's Most Remote Island Fair Isle Britain's Most Remote Inhabited Island Waved goodbye to Fair Isle this morning and took our return flight to Tingwall. Flights leave from Tingwall airport, a ten minute drive from Lerwick. There are flights to the isle each weekday, weather permitting. While 27 miles offshore to the north of Shetland mainland, the island of Fair Isle, the UK's furthest outpost island, is a tiny and breath-takingly beautiful jewel, rich in birdlife and with a dedicated community whose love for their home residents are only too eager to share with the few intrepid visitors who make the journey each year. This time it was Sarah and I, and now we were hopping back over to the Shetland Mainland. ...

 Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse; that’s the story Dave wants to tell. South Light on Fair Isle is a pharologist's*  delight - a superb  example of a 'Stevenson Lighthouse', one of many around the shores of mainland Scotland and the isles, built in1891 by this famous and prolific family of Scottish engineers. (*pharology - the study of lighthouses!) Designed and built in 1891 by David A. and Charles Stevenson (cousin of author Robert Louis Stevenson) it entered service in 1892. The lighthouse tower at 85 feet is the tallest one in Shetland and there are 106 steps to the top. In 1998 it became the last lighthouse in Scotland to be automated. Its foghorn - also Scotland's last - was dismantled in 2005.Its light is still operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board and the beam, consisting of 4 flashes every 30 seconds, can be seen from at least as far as Orkney - some 25 miles away across open sea.

  Hiking Malcom's Head, taking in some of the best coastal scenery and features on Fair Isle.

  Today is known as a Given Day on Fair Isle-storm over, sun is out and the wind  has dropped. The boat came in with fresh provisions. The whole island got excited. There was a traffic jam (4 cars) at the store.

  Ice  Bathing  give your skin and hair a healthy glow, and we were gonna go for it in the chilly North Atlantic. Even though we are on the same longitude as Cape Farewell, Greenland, and closer to Bergan, Norway than Edenborough, Scotland- we made our first attempt. We had to cancel because the currents were too strong. Will revisit when the weather cooperates. 

 2020-What a year! Yellowstone National Park (WY not?), Fair Isle, Scotland , (Shetland)  Dover, England  (White Cliffs) via  Orlando (Disney) and South Florida. It started with Christmas and New Years sailaways on Disney Cruise Lines in The Eastern and Western Caribbean.  Then Covid hit, and travel changed forever...Yet we  managed to finish the year out on Britain's most remote inhabited island, population 45, taking physical distancing Uber seriously. Yellowstone National Park USA It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision.  Nobody could predict what they'd be seeing and doing this year- washing their hands, wearing a mask and social distancing because of the global pandemic. Normally, we would be sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, The Baltics or  through Alaska's wildlife super highway, Glacier Bay.Tis the season but all fleets have come to a grinding halt.   View th...