A bit of a photo It’s a busy morning on deck as everyone prepares to head in different directions but the confusion and waiting is soon replaced by the fun of exploring new places.
The island of St Agnes is at the Southern edge of the Scillys group and is most the Southerly inhabited place in the UK. The entire island has fewer houses than my one street in Cambridge, and yet there are four separate settlements of Troy town, Lower Town, Middle Town, and Higher Town. It’s almost like some people playing the board game of Settlers have picked their starting locations and are now competing for resources. The roads on the island are concrete and only a couple of metres wide: it’s a pedestrian oriented place.
The scientists survey several areas of beach here. The broad correlation seems to be that less frequented beaches have higher amounts of plastic and litter as they have fewer organised beach cleans.
We walk to the southern side of the island and I enjoy climbing large rocks. Unlike rigging, they don’t move.
Back at the Pelican the super yacht Farfalla has anchored close by.
In the evening we go to Hugh Town on St Mary’s, have dinner ashore, and then return just after sunset.
