The Isle of May: where Scotland's oldest lighthouse, Viking raids and a rescued puffling share one mile of rock

Lighthouses, War and a Puffling

A personal account of Open Doors day on the Isle of May, a mile-long island in the Firth of Forth. It carries a 1635 coal-fired beacon where a keeper's family suffocated, Robert Stevenson's 1816 lighthouse, a chapel to St Adrian, a WWI disaster the Royal Navy inflicted on itself, tales of smugglers and witches, and one of Britain's largest puffin colonies. The author watches a rescued puffling named Scout be released into the sea.