We’ve been promising ourselves we’ll update the website in the winter for quite a few years now! Finally, we are LIVE with our new site, thanks to the patience of Craig at Orknet. We are continuing to work on updating the content and layout as we go along and as we learn. So we would …
The tour season is well underway now and hopefully the weather will realise that too soon! The puffins are back in good numbers at the Castle o Burrian which is a relief and there appear to be plenty of aaks amongst the gannets up at Noup Head. We are busy taking bookings for the summer …
We have taken the decision to not run tours on Saturdays and Sundays from now on due to having too many other commitments in Westray. We were in danger of spreading ourselves too thin so as a rule we won’t be providing weekend tours, although we will of course honour any already booked and will …
As October draws to a close and it feels increasingly like winter is upon us we will put Westraak into hibernation and concentrate on some of our other commitments here in Westray. Thanks to all who have joined us for a tour this year, after a slow start we have been as busy as ever …
We are pleased to be able to operate tours again. We are currently running with limited numbers in order to comply with social distancing on the bus and in our house but are hopeful that will ease again soon. Please be aware that even foot passengers have to book in advance with Orkney Ferries. The …
The puffins are back in Westray and we are hopeful that it won�t be long before we can welcome visitors to Westray again too. At the moment there is no clear guidance on when travel restrictions to the islands of Scotland will be lifted (at the moment it is essential travel only allowed on the …
WESTRAAK TOURS WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2020 We have been deliberating for many hours on whether we can or should restart our tours this season. While there has been plenty of advice made available from such bodies as the Scottish Government and Visit Scotland, and we have taken the time to plough …
Hello. We trust you are all doing Ok. While there are some tentative plans for the tourism industry in Orkney to reopen in the next few weeks we have taken the decision to remain closed until at least the end of July. The social distancing requirements mean that the use of our bus for mixed …
We’ve had quite a few requests for day tours on Tuesdays for this year so I’d like to clarify that while we are open for business on Tuesdays the Westray ferry timetable is different during the summer (3rd May-28th September, allegedly). The boat leaves Kirkwall very early (7am) and then returns from Westray three hours …
Happy New Year, best wishes for 2020. We had another busy year and are now taking bookings for the new season. We’ve had a few issues with folk’s booking requests not getting to us, should you make an enquiry via the calendar and you don’t hear from us within a day or two, apologies, please …
