Day 4; June 7th

Today is Saturday. We have breakfast and will only work for half a day. In the afternoon we will make an excursion to the Cambir.

This time I will work together with Martin. We have to paint the sign and the bolt of the door of the ammunition store, and we are supposed to paint a sill of the church.
But since the door of the ammunition store is in a bad stage, Martin asks for permission to paint the entire door. It is not a matter of "no" or "ok"; we have to wait for official permission from the National Trust. In the meantime we gather the necessary tools. At teatime the only thing we've done is remove one screw from the sign! After morning tea we sand the door and put it into the primer.

I'm not sure who came up with the idea, but we are in a rebellious mood because of the bureaucracy of the work. We suggest to paint the door with a nice pattern instead of the prescribed green. First the primer has to dry, but the idea gets stuck in our heads.

We have the afternoon off and we are going for an excursion to the Cambir. From the Cambir you'll have a nice view over Soay.

It is a pretty brisk walk through the nesting area of the Bonxie. There are many nests with eggs or chicks, and the parents bomberdive us furiously.

In my next post I will tell something about the Bonxie on St. Kilda.