The Whaligoe Steps

Currently standing at 337 steps, (it used to be 365!) this one is not for the faint hearted. The steps were built to bring the fish up from the harbour as well as to get down to get the whales ready to haul up. (They didn’t hunt them. They just used 100% of the dead ones that washed into the harbour. They built a crane to haul the whales up the cliff. We met Davie, the man whose job it is to maintain the steps and he showed us some lovely old photos.Read more