After a rather cloudy but ridiculously beautiful day in Tresco, the sun upped its game the next day, and we headed off to explore another island we’d wanted to for a while – St Agnes!
This meant sailing past an old favourite, the island of Bryher. With Lloyd pretending (to himself mostly) that he was the one running things on the boat.
Holiday makers (who were lucky enough to own their boats) were also up and about getting ready for an adventure of their own…
…as we sailed off in search of this island I was yet to see (even from a distance).
Before long, we started to draw closer to St Agnes (which is the island on the right).
I hadn’t realised it at the time, but the island on the left is Gugh, and it is reachable by a beach which is available once the tide goes down from around 11 am and stays available all day! But more on that later…
Finally, we docked at the harbour and eagerly ran off to see more of the island. We may have gotten slightly distracted by some rather cute cows…
*Someone* now thinks they could be a pretend-farmer… (in addition to already being a pretend-sailor)
I just love how everything is so startlingly blue and green! This is one of the major things that I always remember about the Isles of Scilly – its glorious colours!
After, the lessons learned on Bryher, I decided it probably made more sense to stop for food before carrying on! Breakfast/Lunch/Brunch was at the Turk’s head and seeing as we were by the seaside, the choice was fairly straight forward – Fish and Chips! 🙂
You have to pop into the pub to actually order your meal of course but once ordered, you take your seat outside and wait for it to be delivered to you…
…which is a great way to soak in that island beauty!
The boats from Tresco are one of the earliest boats to arrive, and as we waited, more and more boats started arriving on the island…
Now, the fish and chips here are pretty good, right, but the best part about being here is most certainly the birds! St Agnes is a special respite for sea birds.
Hence, why it, along with Gugh, and perhaps the more rustic and untouched of the islands here…
The birds are so friendly and very playful, and will most certainly make a swipe for your food!
I’m not sure if birds are supposed to be eating fish and chips, but they wouldn’t have it any other way, so we just gave in…
The sparrows are the cheekiest of the lot, but the song thrushes are bigger and are the ones to look out for (mostly because they’re big enough to fly away with your food)…
The best part about this all though, is the photography aspect.
These birds make for such brilliant subjects. They stick around just that extra fraction of a second longer that which makes it so much easier to photograph them!
Case in point…
Eventually, we decided it was time to leave the Turk’s Head and head off in search of what else lay on this beautiful island… (starting with Gugh)…
…but if I tried to cram in those photos in this post, we’d be here all day, so I’ll catch you up in an upcoming post!
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