A wonderful day on Orkney Part 1

June 21 Oh what a beautiful morning! Passenger ferry from John O'Groats to Orkney, Churchill barriers, Scapa Flow, Kirkwall for coffee where we saw an Orkney chair, lunch at Stromness. The Churchill barriers came about during World War 2. A submarine got between the sunken ships in the channels to get into Scapa Flow and sink the Royal Oak. The Navy had thought the flow was impregnable. Churchill ordered that the 2 channels be filled and Italian prisoners of war were told to do the work. At first they refused saying it was war work but in being told causeways were being built betweeen the islands they agreed. Huge rocks and lumps of concrete had to be dropped into the water at places 50 feet deep. It took most of the War for them to be built.