Experience · Shetland

Shetland in the simmer dim

Gannets, puffins and the light that doesn’t end.

Seabird cliffs at Hermaness and Noss, and nights that never get dark.

Two puffins at a burrow entrance on a Shetland cliff ledge — Sumburgh, Shetland

About this experience

On the cliffs.

In midsummer Shetland has almost nineteen hours of daylightverify, and the hours in between are a long, blue twilight the islanders call the simmer dim.

It is the season of the seabirds: gannets, puffins, guillemots and great skuasverify on the cliffs of Hermaness on Unst, the island of Noss, and Sumburgh Head.

A local guide for the bird days, a boat round Noss, and the walk out to Hermaness. Evenings are for the light: a beach at eleven, a harbour at midnight.

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Puffin cliffs at Hermaness and Sumburgh, Norse names and the simmer dim.

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