Otters Wick

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Otters Wick, (HU526850), is an inlet on the east side of the island of Yell in Shetland.
On the west shore of the wick is the settlement of Otterswick. On the north side of the wick is "The White Wife of Otterswick", the figurehead from the Bohus, which was wrecked in the wick in 1924.

Other wrecks in the wick include the Rey Flower sometime during the first ten months of 1711, the Wolf on December 18th 1737, the Juffrau Dorothea on the Ness of Queyon in 1750, and the Harmonie also on the ness on December 19th 1847.

Looking west from the White Wife - The beach at Otterswick, where some of the 'Bohus' wreckage came ashore, and houses on the hill.

The White Wife looks out to sea