Send in your photos of a memorable St Kilda visit and win a share of the prizes! The competition judging will take place during the Annual Reunion at 3.45pm on Saturday 25th November 2017. There are three categories to enter in: ‘Scenery’, ‘Nature’ and ‘Fun and Folk’...
Club News
St Kilda AGM, Annual Dinner and Reunion – 25th November 2017
It's not long now until what will be the 41st AGM of the St Kilda Club, followed by the Annual Dinner and Reunion on Saturday 25th November, at Edinburgh Zoo in The Education Centre and the Mansion House. This year's programme offers a wealth of riches, with Susan...
St Kilda Club Photographic Competition 2016
Send in your photos of a memorable St Kilda visit and win a share of the prizes! The competition judging will take place during the annual Reunion at 3.30pm on Saturday 26th November 2015. There are three categories to enter in: 'Scenery', 'Nature' and 'Fun and Folk'...
Dead-eye, St Kilda
Dead-eye, St Kilda by Betty Tindal - found on St Kilda in 2006 A pulley really From an old sailing ship, in my hand, tactile, evocative. See where the ropes bit, smoothing and polishing the timber? Was it this that saved it from a winter fire? Here in my hands a tiny...
Sightlines
New books on St Kilda have usually been well advertised by their publishers in recent years, so keeping up with the ever expanding literature of St Kilda is not difficult. However, avid readers of anything new on St Kilda may have missed an account by a visitor to St...
Thank you members of the St Kilda Club
Following the recent correspondence sent out to all the members of the St Kilda Club, I felt I had to say a huge THANK YOU to you all! The number of people visiting the website has increased, and the number of 'likes' on Facebook and followers on Twitter has also...
Headline News – Today, 29 August 1930
At 5am this morning, HMS Harebell lowered her whaler. Ship’s log, 29/08/1930: “Embarked the inhabitants of St Kilda, 14 women, 13 men, 15 Children.” Later, “Everyone on board. Hoisted boat. 08.02 hrs Weighed. Proceeded 11.5 knots” With this laconic entry, the...
The Breaking of the Fellowship – Work Party 3 back on Harris
Sadly, the weather did not let up on Hirta for our last days. On Sunday night we had tremendous rain and on Monday, Tuesday (and Wednesday, and Thursday), all the streams were raging torrents. When on a work party, one’s task is clearing out the many small water...
From the misty isles – Work Party 3 update
Poor Donald and Work Party 3 on St Kilda are still having bad weather, here's Donald's latest blog, and the last from the island: Weather continues misty, light rain and with the hill tops in mist – this has gone on for 2 weeks now. The joke is playing a bit thin!...
Where has summer gone? More from Work Party 3
Yesterday began damp and misty (as usual!). However during the morning it gradually dried up, though the cloud level remained below the top of Dun. This enabled work on painting the gun to resume (again, a holding measure to last it through the winter). Christine and...