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  • Tales o Hoy
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    • 1: Dark enchanted isle
    • 2: Rough road to Rackwick
    • 3: Hidden valley of light
    • 4: The man who was never a boy
    • 5: Many things to many folk
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      • William Sinclair Ritch’s Autobiography
      • The spirit of adventure ran high in his blood
      • A Hoy Egg hunting Adventure
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  • Natural History
    • Effy Everiss Natural History Library
    • Eagles
      • The changing fortunes of Eagles in Hoy
      • Baby-snatching Eagles
    • Birdlife on the Old Man
    • Wild Flowers in Hoy
    • James Sinclair The Botanist from the Bu
      • James Sinclair herbarium
      • In the footsteps of James Sinclair – audio walk
      • Laura Drever – The Bu
    • Hoy weather
      • Hoy clouds
  • Places
    • Hoy place names 1880
    • Old Man of Hoy
      • Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
      • Poetry of the Old Man of Hoy
      • Stitching up the Old Man
    • Dwarfie Stone
    • Hoy Archaeology reports
    • Hoy& Walls Wartime Trail
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      • Rackwick Then & Now
      • Aerial photograph of Rackwick
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DID YOU CLIMB THE OLD MAN?

DID YOU CLIMB THE OLD MAN?

From Hoy to Hudson Bay and back

From Hoy to Hudson Bay and back

HOY 1972 film

HOY 1972 film

TALES O HOY

TALES O HOY

Rackwick backflip

Rackwick backflip

THE INVERLAINE SLIPS FROM VIEW

THE INVERLAINE SLIPS FROM VIEW

HOY IN MIND

HOY IN MIND

MAX IN HOY

MAX IN HOY

WHEN A PHOTOGRAPH SPEAKS

WHEN A PHOTOGRAPH SPEAKS

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