For many people Yell is a place to drive through on the way to Unst. The road from the ferry passes the west side, virtually a straight road north. It does pass several interesting places if you have time to take a detour. Westsandwick beach is superb with parking nearby. A good place for Otters and a paddle. Yell in fact is the largest of the north isles with a population of around 900 people, most on the eastside. The normal pre wedding advertising above. This will come as goo.

The news is out that a pair of Red backed Shrikes have bred this year in Shetland. Quiet a few birds came into Shetland during the spring period and it looks like a male and female decided to stay on and breed. Already this year problems have occurred with other rare Shetland breeding birds when either over enthusiastic photographers or egg collectors have been involved.

What can be seen in the Shetland Night sky- well nothing at present as it is too light. Harry Rose recently gave a very interesting talk, in which he indicated that providing you are not near a light polluted area you can actually see a lot in the Shetland night sky. He showed the benefits of using binoculars either 8x40 which has a wide view or very high powered but tripod mounted version. Harry explained everything in terms that everyone could understand,.

It will soon be dark enough to see the Auroras once again. You often have to react quick as aurora can last a few minutes to several hours. The intensity can also vary from the normal green colour to the intense purples and reds which dance across the sky. Free postage is now offered when you buy a canvas from Amazing Shetland.