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The Tall Ships Races 2011

Tall Ships Lerwick


Fair Isle
is a Guest Harbour for
CRUISE IN COMPANY
12th-21st July 2011


Fair Isle Area
Weather Forecast

Rather cloudy today with some patchy drizzle. Outbreaks of rain moving north this evening, becoming more persistent overnight. Mainly light winds, NW’ly at first, SE’ly later.
Rather cloudy on Saturday, with rain at times and a moderate NE’ly wind.
Sunday cloudy with showers and a NW’ly breeze. Drier and brighter on Monday, with lighter winds. Mostly dry and bright in Shetland on Tuesday, but becoming cloudier with rain reaching Orkney by evening. Light winds.
The rest of next week perhaps rather cloudy, with some showers but also drier spells. Winds generally W or NW’ly in direction, light to moderate in strength, but occasionally increasing fresh.

Sea State Next Three Days

Mainly moderate or slight.



THE NEW FAIR ISLE BIRD OBSERVATORY
The almost complete New Fair Isle Bird Observatory - photo Deryk Shaw

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'Fair Isle: through the seasons' 
Fair Isle: through the seasons
This new book about the island now available!
Have a look at the website for more details.


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A ten day forecast for the Northern Isles

Tide times for Fair Isle
& other northern harbours
(links to page on BBC website)

Fair Isle
Weather Station
online with
current weather
&
history graphs


 

The Weather in...

                                               
Welcome to
Britain's
most remote - though far from isolated - inhabited island!
An adventure getting here,
sometimes hard to leave,
but always an individual welcome!

In reality virtually unforgettable!

Fair Isle
New Information Pamphlet
(3-fold A4)

download the large file (3.5MB)
or the smaller (0.5MB) pdf file


FLIGHTS TO FAIR ISLE
from Shetland
with Directflight

Summer Timetable 2010

Winter Timetable
For enquiries/bookings phone
Tingwall Tel: 01595 840246

 

Good Shepherd
sailings
Summer 2010

 



South Lighthouse
Evening light - South Lighthouse
Sheep Tock Evening light
and Sheep Rock 


Disused Fog Horn, North Lighthouse, Fair Isle
Disused Fog Horn

Disused Fog Horn, North Lighthouse, Fair Isle
North Lighthouse, Fair Isle


A brief glimpse
around the Isle

('slide show')



FAIR ISLE WEBCAMS
Fair Isle MetCam (Axis 207W) Looking north to Ward Hill (217')
 Looking north to Ward Hill (217')

Fair Isle MetCam (Axis 207W) Looking SSW
Looking SSW

Yachts and Good Shepherd IV, N Haven
Yachts and Good Shepherd IV, N Haven

Cruise ship at anchor - Heridean Princess
Cruise ship at anchor - Hebridean Princess

The Fair Isle Times
Fair Isle's 'local newspaper'
After 32 years of continuous publication subscribers can now received their copy via e-mail or
downloaded it from the FIT website.

As an example here is Vol 33 No1
(This one is quite a large download at 7MB, most are between 0.5-1.5MB


Fair Isle Marine Environment & Tourism Initiative.
(FIMETI)

 Fair Isle Marine Environment & Tourism Initiative (FIMETI) website
As well as lots of background information and photographs, the website also includes all the latest news and updates in FIMETI’s newsletter
 ‘Making Waves’

The latest issue (No.7, Feb 2010) has now been published and is available on-line via the above link.

Hesswalls, looking east to Sheep Rock
Hesswalls, view to Sheep Rock

 
 
The Shetland News
 
 
THE SHETLAND TIMES  
for latest news of
Shetland related matters
 

 

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Text and photographs 2008 Dave Wheeler except where otherwise credited. (Logo picture courtesy of Sumburgh SAR)
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