Cabins & Castles, Brochs & Broughs...

...for our last day...
Set off relatively early to catch the tide at the causeway to the Brough of Birsay and the extensive Viking Settlement. Quite mystical in the slight mist...
A walk to the lighthouse - now powered by solar panels - and a look back to Kitchener's monument on the cliffs.
Coffee near the Earl's Palace - relatively modern 16th century ruins - which is today's blip, then on to the Broch of Gurness and the shamrock house. Occupied from the Iron Age though Pictish and into Norse times - what an impressive fortification that must have been!
A late lunch in Evie and back to pack up ready for the drive home tomorrow - probably in the rain ;)

Extra is the flagstone slab roof of Arnie's house, my Abstract Thursday mystery, which blipper PorridgeWog knew immediately - but he's a local...