We flew to the Isles of Scilly from Lands End on a tiny 8 seater airplane. But the flight was only 15 minutes, so there was enough time for Richard to take about 100 photos of the beautiful scenery leaving Lands End and arriving on St. Marys Island. The weather was absolutely fantastic, couldn't have got better, so as soon as we'd booked in the B&B we were off to the island of Tresco. We got a ride over in a private chartered boat that had enormous motors on the back, and just zoomed along the flat water. On Tresco Merry hired bikes for the boys, so they were very happy to bike around, rather than walk with us. All along the sides of the paths there were wild black berries growing. They were so yum, I'm sure our walk took us twice as long because we were stopping to pick them every few steps. Caleb became quite an expert at spotting the best ones.
Here I am picking some black berries. (This is an interesting animal that came out of the under growth, reminded me of Gorilla's in the mist - Richard's comment of course)
This is where we arranged to meet the boat to head back to St. Marys. You can see how flat and clear the water was. We had a bit of a paddle in the water, but it was too cold for a swim.
The first night on Scilly we had a meal out at the Mermaid (one of many many pubs on the island). Here we are with Barabara (top right), and John (Richards godfather, you can just see his shiny head on the right) and Barabara's daughter Nicola (front right) and her daughters Ashley and Keylee.
Unfortunately the lovely weather didn't last, it got cold and overcast but only rained at night. This is the view from the Garrison Hotel (closed when we visited, but looked like an old castle), looking back to the wharf and Hugh Town on St Mary's island.
We had a big walk around the garrison. Along the way there were cannons and stone walls and defensive bits left over from the war.
On our last day in Scilly Richard and Hamish hired bikes (while the rest of us went shopping). They biked all over the island (twice apparently). Here's Hamish biking up one of the typical roads, narrow and windy. I don't know what would happen if two cars met. There aren't too many cars on the island, but there's probably about twice as many as when we were here 17 years ago.
One of the pubs was giving away Guinness stuff with every pint sold. So Richard, Tom and John
had to drink a few so the kids could get these gloves, ball and key ring. I think the chewing gum just wanted it's photo taken too.
We stopped at Stonehenge (us and about 10,000 other tourists) on the way from Penzance to Worthing (a bit of a detour). There was an audio tour to listen to as we walked around it. I found it very interesting, there was so much history, but also so much unknown about it. Hamish enjoyed listening to the history and theories but Caleb didn't know what the fuss was about some old rocks.
This is where we arranged to meet the boat to head back to St. Marys. You can see how flat and clear the water was. We had a bit of a paddle in the water, but it was too cold for a swim.
The first night on Scilly we had a meal out at the Mermaid (one of many many pubs on the island). Here we are with Barabara (top right), and John (Richards godfather, you can just see his shiny head on the right) and Barabara's daughter Nicola (front right) and her daughters Ashley and Keylee.
Unfortunately the lovely weather didn't last, it got cold and overcast but only rained at night. This is the view from the Garrison Hotel (closed when we visited, but looked like an old castle), looking back to the wharf and Hugh Town on St Mary's island.
We had a big walk around the garrison. Along the way there were cannons and stone walls and defensive bits left over from the war. 
On our last day in Scilly Richard and Hamish hired bikes (while the rest of us went shopping). They biked all over the island (twice apparently). Here's Hamish biking up one of the typical roads, narrow and windy. I don't know what would happen if two cars met. There aren't too many cars on the island, but there's probably about twice as many as when we were here 17 years ago.
One of the pubs was giving away Guinness stuff with every pint sold. So Richard, Tom and John had to drink a few so the kids could get these gloves, ball and key ring. I think the chewing gum just wanted it's photo taken too.
We stopped at Stonehenge (us and about 10,000 other tourists) on the way from Penzance to Worthing (a bit of a detour). There was an audio tour to listen to as we walked around it. I found it very interesting, there was so much history, but also so much unknown about it. Hamish enjoyed listening to the history and theories but Caleb didn't know what the fuss was about some old rocks.
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