Here is the latest offering from my diary. January to March 2003 I am pleased that I took advice from my friend George Sutherland when I started working on Rona that I should write a diary every day. I had a diary prior to Rona and noted things but never detailed it like my Rona days. This has proved invaluable so far. A reminder and memories of what happened, day to day.
An Early Picture of The Rona Fold.
An early picture of a few cows from the Rona Fold at Dry Harbour. The Black one had disappeared by the time I arrived. Interesting that this must have been taken pre 2000, the corner of the Mission House shows no sign of renovation.
I've been living on the island since April 2002, alone for the first 5 years, my partner L joined me in 2007. We manage the Island for a Danish family who bought the Island in the early 90's.
Their hopes for the Island are to make it self sufficient supporting its inhabitants and that is where we come in.
We look after the stock, 3 holiday cottages, machinery, boat and of course the visitors.
It is pretty challenging but it is a beautiful place to live and work, we love it and strangely enough we love it even more in the depths of winter when all is quiet apart from the gales and rain.
We do a bit of fishing, stock work, stalking deer and loads of other stuff. We have good support from lots of people whom we have met over the years and have become involved in the Island. Too many to mention here but keep an eye on the blog, they'll be there for sure in the future.
