The Pirates Graveyard, Peas and a Zulu Fishing Boat

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

We have another excerpt from the teams Whithorn Way pilgrimage, this time Rachel meets Stuart Wilson and Brian Boyd from the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and hears all about a very surprising annual event!

Mark has a trip on a Loch Ness with Frida Newton as they celebrate Jacobite Cruisers 50th anniversary

Rachel visits the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther where they have the only Zulu fishing boat in the UK. Curator Julia Branch and musician Esther Swift - who has composed a piece of music inspired by the vessels, are there to meet her.

Give Peas a Chance is a pilot project whose aim is to get locally grown organic split peas into school meals. This week, Rachel and some pupils who’ve been enjoying the peas, visited farmer Phil Swire and heard all about the journey from the soil to plate.

Rachel is in Dundee to view a new whale memorial by Scottish artist Michael Visocchi. The sculpture which is heading to Georgia very soon, represents the shift from hunting whales in the past to conservation. Alison Neil from the South Georgia Heritage Trust has positive news regarding whale numbers in the area.

Mark is in Cromarty to visit a very unusual cemetery nicknamed The Pirates Graveyard. David Alston explains what the engravings mean and who or what is in the oldest part of Cromarty - the Crypt!

After some positive news regarding the ever elusive Capercaillie hit the headlines this week, Mark and Rachel find out more from Dr Jack Bamber from the University of Aberdeen.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts,
0:25.3	and the best part is free.
0:28.1	To book your free tickets,
0:29.3	go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe.
0:33.6	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:42.3	Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:46.3	As we tell you every week, we do a couple of Scotland Outdoors podcasts every week
0:51.3	and one of them is actually built from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland
0:55.5	which is called Out of Doors. And this week we've gone full-blown Boate McBoatface.
1:04.2	You know it's a funny old world. I was just walking up the Caledonian Canal the other day along one of the towpaths
1:10.0	and I looked across the other side of the canal and walking along the towpath there there was this man
1:15.5	what I thought he was doing was actually using a golf club and taking an occasional swing but he was wearing a red baseball cap and I thought no it can't be him surely it can't be him and as I actuallyook him, it wasn't a golf club at all. It was a cammon.
1:30.4	He was an ex-shinty player and what have you. So you don't argue with them. I just moved on quickly.
1:34.7	Anyway, good morning. I'm Mark Stephen. She's Rachel Stewart. It's actually quite a nice day.
1:38.8	It is a nice day. It's 18 degrees, according to my car. 18 degrees already.
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