Explore the remote, abandoned island of St Kilda, Scotland, United Kingdom (U.K.) on a very wet and windy day. Please SUBSCRIBE to see more videos from the most remote places on earth.
Journey with me and get a feel for what life must have been like on St Kilda for it's inhabitants until they evacuated the island in 1930 in this episode of my Remote Travel Vlog.
St Kilda island is a fantastic place if you're interested in abandoned and remote places. I would highly recommend visiting on your next trip to Scotland.
If you would like to visit St Kilda please check out the post about how to get there on my website www.andyexplorestheworld.com
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Transcription:
Today we’re in Leverburgh in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and we’re just abut to get on the boat behind me and head out to St Kilda which is one of the remotest islands in the UK.
It’s about a fifty mile journey from the Outer Hebrides so it’s a long way out. It takes about two and a half hours. The conditions today - it’s a bit lumpy out there. It’s very overcast. We’re motoring out into the gloom at the moment. There is no sign of St Kilda. We probably won’t see it until we get quite close today. It’s one of my favourite places in the whole of the British Isles.
So we’ve landed on St Kilda after quite a rough passage across from Harris. Straight away when you step ashore you’re struck by what a barn and remote place it is here.
At the moment I’m wondering along what would have been St Kilda’s only street. Today it’s very much in an abandoned state.
The St Kildan’s lived in very meagre accommodation. We’re just going to walk into one now. You can imagine how low that roof was for me to fit through there. I certainly wouldn’t have made it through there standing up.
It’s quite sobering to think that until the 1930’s this was someones house. It was in the 30’s when the St Kildan’s finally abandoned the island because their way of life was no longer sustainable. A lot of that was due to it’s remote location. The population grew older and the younger people left and the way of life slowly became unsustainable. There is a plaque in this house that I am walking through now that says the date of the last family to live here.
The incredible thing about the St Kildan’s for me was there ability to live out here in such harsh conditions. They survived out here living mainly off the seabirds they used to catch. It’s hard to imagine being out here through the winters completely cut off from civilisation.
Today it has taken us 2 and a half hours doing about 20 knots on a modern boat pushing hard against quite a big sea today to get here. For the St Kildan’s it would have been a two day row across the open Atlantic Ocean and that was just to reach the other Outer Hebrides Islands.
I think a howling gail with wind and rain your face is really the proper way to experience St Kilda. The weather certainly hasn’t got any better. It’s still looking pretty bleak and closing in. We got real low cloud cover today. I’m going to attempt to walk out of the town now and up one of the hills behind the town and see what else we can see.
Wow what downpour. I’d call that downpour. I don’t even need a bottle of drinking water today I can just stand here with my mouth open.
You can see the bay where we came in behind me there. Just about through the rain. We’re going to keep on going and see what else what else we can see. Probably more rain and cloud.
So at the moment we’re on the top of St Kilda. Just moments ago this was in thick cloud and I couldn’t see any of this at all. When the cloud cover lifts you start getting a feel for the scale of the island and the brutality and sheerness of it. There’s new bits of the island revealing themselves out of the cloud every minute t the moment. Hopefully the visibility will keep on increasing throughout the day.
We’re going to keep on walking on across the island.
There is also some military installations on ST Kilda as well. Behind em you can see what looks like one of the radar domes. It’s strange you want somewhere like this to be completely unspoilt but there’s a number of military buildings here to.
What’s in front of me that is absolutely beautiful. It looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
For me it’s just an incredibly beautiful and barren and unique place.
What an incredible place ST Kilda is. AT the end we went out to have a look at the stacks around St Kilda. They are amazing but it was really really rough out there.
We have had every type of rain imaginable. We had a great passage back tonight. It was pretty rough. A few green faces down below. Literally just arriving into port in Harris now. If you’re interested in remote places check out my travel blog.
18 окт 2018
