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Striking Whirls On Mens Wedding Rings Grab Attention

Stroma Homage on Mens Wedding Rings

The 2nd swiftest tidal currents on the earth chase all round an island in the middle of the Pentland Firth. Vikings named it Straumey, meaning island in the creek or current. We have named it as Stroma and Ola Gorie has created mens wedding rings depicting the seas swirling.

The Stroma rings feature on our online jewellery pages and is a popular option for people that like the beautiful waves inspired through the mighty force of nature. Together with 2 strong tidal races off Stroma, there is a whirlpool known as The Swilkie which the Vikings wrote into their mythology.

The Viking legend tells of how a magical quern was transported to the bottom of the ocean where still it grinds salt at this time, which is why the sea is salty. It is true that even ultra powerful vessels can certainly be pushed off course by the strength of the eddies all around the islet.

Mens Wedding Rings Illustrate Bonny Isle

Lately concern about the risks has led to the construction of the Stroma Lighthouse in the nineteenth century, created by David and Charles Stevenson. You’ll find 60 known shipwrecks close to the island’s coastline. The lighthouse buildings were machine gunned during an enemy attack in 1943. Through the two world wars countless men left the isle to sign up for the navy and didn’t return. The population count was 550 at its highest in the 19th century, was 375 by 1901 and fell during World War 2 to 111.

More people started work at Dounreay power station near Thurso in Caithness in the 1960s and the last 2 families left in 1962.Even the lighthouse team members have also left. While not being so well-known or regarded as romantically as St Kilda where households were forced to leave, uninhabited Stroma, which used to be a prosperous community, does have its own magic. Sheep graze and today find security and shelter in the derelict buildings.

Stroma lies just a mile from the Scottish mainland, between John o’ Groats and Orkney and is really the only island in the region of Caithness. It really is quite a long time since marriages were made on the island and mens wedding rings worn but that contributes to the appeal of Ola’s Stroma range. Despite a brand new harbor being built in 1956, only 16 individuals including the lighthouse keepers remained.

A moving poem was written by one of the last inhabitants, William Sinclair, called Farewell to Stroma. And a book written and published this year, named simply Stroma, has work from photographer Roddy Ritchie, poet George Gunn and prose from writer Ali Murray. This book of photographs, poetry and prose offers an alternative and extremely creative look at Stroma’s current and possible future, perhaps through renewable energy schemes. Therefore it is not just jewelry website designers who feel motivated to pay respect to this once flourishing island. Ola has helped maintain the spirit of Stroma alive through her mens wedding rings while others write verses, paint or take photographs.

“The End” Virtualrally’s photos around Wick, United Kingdom (caithness and sutherland)

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