Just got back from Italy, Monopoli Near Bari on the North Coast by the ‘heel’ of Italy, a beautiful region, with some excelent food and wine and extremely friendly people. Will post some photos latter as I have problems with my computer at present and it now needs a rebuild (doing that today).

Back to the Orkney Islands: one of the main tourist attractions in the Orkneys are the ship wrecks that litter the coast line. Some are visible from dry land but most have to be seen by Scuba diving. Both my husband and I scuba dive but I like staying above 30m and looking at fish and he likes diving deep and dark to see ship wrecks. So on this trip, whilst I travelled around the islands on dry land and boats he travelled round scapa flow on a boat which he then leapt off to dive under the water. You can still see some of the boats that were wrecked off Scapa Flow to block the channels and keep the German submarines out, below are 2 photogrpahs I took of the bits of boats left sticking out above the water line when a sea fret had rolled in and obscured what I had set the camera up for (these fogs roll in very quickly). If you want to know more about the historyof Scapa Flow and the Germon high Fleet scuttled in WW1 click on the link here:

http://www.scapaflow.co.uk/

photograph of ship wreck of the coast of Orkney

photograph of engine block of ship wrecked off the coast of Orkney