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A Visit to Orkney - This page describes a trip to the islands and some ariel experiences there. Kite aerial photography is a technique for taking photographs that uses the lifting power of kites to provide an aerial perspective.
Orkney Tourist Board - The official Tourist Board web site for the islands. Travel, accommodation and local information for the visitor to Scotlands Northern isles.
Scapa Flow Technical & John's Charters - Dive charter boat operating in Scapa Flow and surrounding areas. Includes details and photographs of recent dives to local wrecks.
The Diving Cellar - Complete diving packages around Scapa Flow, including 65' fully equipped boat, accommodation, mini-bus, equipment hire.
Pentland Ferries - Offer a one hour alternative route to Orkney for your car and family.
Cruise Orkney - Stormness based company offering cruise information, boat details and contact addresses.
Papay Pages - Images and information about the Orkney island of Papa Westray.
Earth Mysteries and Sacred Site Tours - Offering tours of the Ring of Brodgar, Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, Maes Howe. Also included are other places in Scotland. Itineries, contact details and associated links included.
Orcadian Reflections - Personally guided tours of Orkney for small parties showing you the historic monuments, wildlife and scenery of these unique islands. Also holiday cottages available to rent near Kirkwall.
Wildabout Tours Orkney - Guided minibus tours of World Heritage sites around the Island. Archaeology, history, wildlife, and folklore information included.
Halton Charters - Day boat charters. Wreck and scenic diving. Includes area information and contact details.
Northlink Ferries - Car and passenger ferry services to the Orkney and Shetland islands.
An Orkney Odyssey - Information video for sale of Orkney's landscape, moods and scenery.
Stromness Car Hire - N W Brass, an established car hire business in Stromness. Site offers online reservation.
Discover sanday - Offer full and half day guided tours. Contact details.
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(George Orson Welles) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Travel and Tourism "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Travel and Tourism "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Travel and Tourism Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" 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