The sun shining through the clouds.	The sea water is very clean and clear here too.
A seagull on the rock...	...with a line of shags behind him.
More shags.	Birds everywhere.
There is a large colony of seals (both common and grey), many of them howling loudly. As one of us has pointed out, they look like giant slugs, lying about lazily...	Click on the above image to view an MP4 clip of a little guy crawling about. (20 seconds, 600KB)
You see lots of ruins of stone houses, not just on this island but throughout the mainland as well.	UsaKousa in front of the Mousa Broch, an Iron Age tower (2000 years old!)
The Broch against some dramatic clouds.	Looking across to the mainland.
On the way back to the mainland, we spot several harbour porpoises swimming around, so the captain kindly makes a detour and stops the boat for a while so that we could all have a close look at them. They breathe just like humans, only more slowly and more loudly. Amazing! To Part 6 (late afternoon & evening) Back to Bunnies Bildergalerie