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Friday July 03, 2009

 

 

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Sheep Rock at sunrise
An early summer morning - Sheep  Rock soon after sunrise.
More photographs at
www.davewheelerphotography.com/

FAIR ISLE WEBCAMS
Fair Isle MetCam (Axis 207W)

Fair Isle MetCam (Axis 207W)

DONATE NOW!
NEW
FAIR ISLE
BIRD
OBSERVATORY
APPEAL

This is a huge project costing 4M and although work has started, FIBOT still need to raise another 262,000 over the coming year.

Further information on the Bird Obs web site at
www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/

Fair Isle Primary Pupils' animation
'Lego Man builds a house'

The children also composed the music!

 

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Fair Isle Area
Weather Forecast

Any local low cloud or fog patches should clear from Shetland during the morning, to leave a day of sunshine and occasional mainly light shower. The evening and night mostly dry. Light SE'ly winds.
Sunday bright and cooler, with light SE'ly winds becoming NE'ly later.
A good deal of dry weather on Monday and Tuesday, but often fairly cloudy with the chance of a light shower. Becoming cooler as winds swing into a N'ly direction and freshen by Tuesday.
Becoming generally dry by mid-week as winds ease, then mostly dry and fine.

Sea State

Becoming slight with a SW'ly swell.

Check for any weather updates on Twitter (scroll down page)


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...

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


FIMETI Newsletter No 5
by Elizabeth Riddiford
PDF format 661KB
Flash format 542KB
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Recommended Links

The Scots Language Centre's
 website has just been updated.

The following link takes you to the Shetland dialect section.

If you are involved in Scottish tourism or interested in the latest activities of Scotland's most important industry, visit scotexchange.net - the official website of the Scottish tourism industry.

Links Page

Search Amazon
or books on Fair Isle,
Shetland, Orkney
or the Northern Isles

Search:

Keywords:

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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!

 

FLIGHTS TO FAIR ISLE
from Shetland
with Directflight
Summer Schedule
now operates
23rd February - 16th October
Summer Timetable

Winter Timetable
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday flights
Directflight Fair Isle schedules
For enquiries/bookings phone
Tingwall Tel: 01595 840246

 

Loganair are NOT operating a Kirkwall - Fair Isle schedule this summer


Good Shepherd

now on summer sailings
Summer 2009

 





"Ivver Entrancin Wis" - click to go to Lise's 'Myspace'
"IVVER ENTRANCIN WIS"
OUT 18th JANUARY
click image above for more information

 

Birds of Fair Isle Tea Towel by Nursery, Primary and secondary children
'Birds of Fair Isle'
A new Tea Towel designed and drawn by all the Fair Isle nursery, primary and secondary children. These can be bought from the school for 3.50 or by post by sending a cheque for 4.10 made payable to Fair Isle Primary School Fund.
(2 @ 7.80, 3 @ 11.30, 4 @ 15.60 etc)

 

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')


Also - new images regularly at -
Dave Wheeler Photography




Shetland Landscapes
Excellent site about the Shetland landscape and geology by former Sella Ness forecaster Allen Fraser. Check out the Climate page for an in-depth insight on the
'Braer Storm'!

There are 95 inhabited islands in Scotland with a total population of just under 100,000.
Scottish Islands Network aims to promote, publicise and advance the interests of all Scotland's islands.

lonely-isles.com
Resources, links and information about abandoned or sparsely populated islands of Scotland.


Fair Isle
NEWS
& PICTURES 

 

 

Letters Page

Latest news from the
Fair Isle Bird Observatory

Friends of Fair Isle
Facebook Group

(Tommy Hyndman)

and
Tommy's Flickr photos


A recently published book on Fair Isle

Eight Acreas and a boat

 
Latest - Update  
Select Latest Update above for more news


Recently Published

 

The Coastal Names of Fair Isle


 

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

World News

 

 
The Rural Community Gateway  


By air with DirectFlight
or by sea on the
Good Shepherd


The new album from Malachy Tallack
(now resident on Fair Isle)
Edges and Spaces is on sale now.
For more details please visit Malachy's website at -
www.malachytallack.com


Fridarey
Fridarey's CD "Across the water"
"Across the Waters"

Special Offer
from Fair Isle School


18-page booklet written and
illustrated by the Primary School
children describing their school
and Fair Isle.
Reduced to 2.50
including 2nd class post.

Please send your name, address
and cheque made payable to
Fair Isle School Fund
to

FIBBI
Fair Isle Primary School
Fair Isle
Shetland
ZE2 9JU

 


Text and photographs 2008 Dave Wheeler except where otherwise credited. (Logo picture courtesy of Sumburgh SAR)
If you would like to use photographs from this site please contact dave.wheeler@fairisle.org.uk
Further images of Fair Isle are available.  Photographic commissions undertaken, websites authored. 
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