WEEKEND ON BRYHER
Just a mile long and half a mile across, Bryher is the smallest of the inhabited islands of Scilly. But with its rugged moorland and cliffs to the north, windswept bays to the west and dreamy white sandy beaches with turquoise waters to the south, it has all you need for an extraordinarily beautiful escape from the modern world. Mains electricity only arrived on the island in 1986 and just the post office van and the odd tractor travel its largely car-free lanes, so entertainment consists of kayaking out to the seal colonies, walking through meadows of buttercups to the granite-studded heaths and snorkelling in the crystal-clear ocean.
Bryher, or ‘The Island of the Hills’, was formed just 600 years ago, when the Atlantic Ocean swept in and
