most northern trig point a space center& muckle flugga

Muckle Flugga just off the far north of Unst, the lighthouse on muckle flugga was opened in 1858 and is the most northerly lighthouse in the UK, situated close to Out Stack, the most northerly rock in the UK.which i wanted to see, i knew i couldnt get to it but felt if i could see it from land then i will have travelled as far north as a person can, Books may nurture the soul but lighthouses save lives and the Stevenson dynasty had a monopoly on their construction. Around Scotland's coastline, they built 97 in almost two centuries of frenetic activity,Robert Louis Stevenson's father and uncle were the main design engineers for the lighthouse on Muckle Flugga, just off Hermaness on the north-west of the island. RL Stevenson visited Unst and the island is claimed to have become the basis for the map of the fictional Treasure Island a claim shared by Fidra in East Lothian. I knew i would see muckle flugga from saxa vord. there is a trig point there i had to visit as it is the most northerly trig point along with it being part of my shetland bag! maybe one dy i will do the most northerly westerly easterly and southerly? i may well have done some of those and dont know it yet,

saxa vord was an RAF radar station which closed in 2006,In April 2007 RAF Saxa Vord's domestic site, plus the road up to the Mid Site, was purchased and renamed "Saxa Vord Resort" by Highland entrepreneur Frank Strang. Strang's company Military Asset Management (MAM) "specialises in the regeneration of redundant or surplus Defence Assets" The base was converted to a tourist resort and natural and cultural heritage centre. In 2013 Saxa Vord had self-catering holiday houses, a 26-bedroom bunkhouse, restaurant and bar, leisure facilities and a guided walks/evening talks programme Three local business relocated their premises to the Saxa Vord site: Unst Cycle Hire, Valhalla Brewery and Foord's Chocolates, i tried to book accomodation here but its all abandoned now and going to sadly be knocked down, i had a cycle round its a shame to demolish th resort

then In 2017 Frank Strang established the Shetland Space Centre Ltd and proposed that Lamba Ness would make a suitable launch site for rockets taking satellites into polar orbits In October 2020 the proposal was given more substance by the announcement that the UK Space Agency had given its approval and that Lockheed Martin was intending to use the site as a UK base for its rocket launches In January 2021, plans were submitted for three rocket launch pads The UK Pathfinder Launch programme is supported by £23.5 million of UK Space Agency grants. The launch site will also be used by HyImpulse Technologies, a German rocket maker developing rockets that claim to use environmentally-friendly hybrid fuel technology using green hydrogen as a propellant, aiming for engine and suborbital testing by the end of 2021, with orbital launches by 2023.[9] Plans for the Space Centre were submitted to Shetland Islands Council by Farningham Planning in January 2021 to enable up to 30 launches per year. The proposal is for three rocket launch pads on Lamba Ness peninsula with additional infrastructure such as a satellite tracking facility, rocket hangars and integration facilities they were working on this while i vissited the area

i asked stu if the trig point was still behind a MOD security fence he had a mate that worked there and said its outside the perimeter i can get to it! the cycle up to the radar station is extremely steep i took my time and had a few stops, leaving the daunder at the gates of the old raf base i walked the final section after enjoying a view out to hermaness and muckle flugga once at the radar (big golf baw) there was two security fences ringing it an old RAF one and a mega you cant get in here new one! both looked no way through! could see that the trig point was outside the fancy new fence but inside the older but still impressive MOD one, i walked round the back following the fence feeling like a criminal i discover the old fence had blown down a bit or been deliberated pulled down a bit right round the back actually inside the old base! WHAT TO DO? i went for it pulling the fence down a bit rolling over it then quickly scrambling up to take a quick photo frightened sirens and security would pounce at any moment! i broke back out easilly and now think i was over worrying it, wishing i had spent more time and took better pictures

the cycle back down went past in a whir the area is not what you could call mountainus, but with roads undulations and me cycling around like a tourist up and down from sea level my GPS watch recorded my most ascent cycled in one day ever!

I stopped at whats called the uk's most famous bus shelter Bobby's Bus Shelter at the Keen of Hamar Stop off at Bobby's Bus Shelter for a photo,i never signed the visitor book i couldnt open the box! the story goes that six year old bobby was annoyed his bus shelter got demolished and wrote a letter of complaint! to the council they listened and built him a new one, Not long after, items began mysteriously appearing inside, starting with a small wicker table and sofa. Then a microwave, then a carpet, telephone, and curtains.

There is now a dedicated team that maintains the bus shelter, but originally all the additions and redecorating were done anonymously. Since 2002, the shelter has been transformed to celebrate an array of themes – from Van Gogh to Outer Space, from the Queen’s Jubilee to Sheep, Tall Ships, and Life Underwater. Eventually, that little boy grew up, and he moved to Swaziland. Bobby’s Bus Shelter was sure to honor that too.I also never went to the end of the road to explore Keen of Hamar - the only place in the world to grow Edmonston's Chickweed ! as i had loads of other stuff to do with a limited time cycle tourists take longer to get around an area