The Burland Croft and Scalloway Museum

We visited Tommy and Mar Isbister's croft.  The link to their croft is here: http://www.burlandcrofttrail.co.uk.  A croft is a small area of land used for food production.  Background reading gave an excellent overview of how crofting developed centuries ago through the book The Crofter and the Laird  by John Mcafee.

Pictures from the croft:

A Shetland pony and then with her little one:  (perhaps that tiny one was tired of being photographed)

A gorgeous rooster:

The Scalloway Museum was a highlight.  The museum is new whereas artifacts go back to the Norse times.

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Viking boat:

 

Gracious volunteer staff at the Scalloway Museum

 

A Shetland Bus boat used during WWII on display.  An excellent history of the Shetland Bus operation is written in the book The Shetland Bus by David Howarth.