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Caithness artist launches paper boat quest





2nd Thurso beavers after their paper boat making session.
2nd Thurso beavers after their paper boat making session.

2ND Thurso beavers have been working away folding little paper boats to help one of the latest projects from a local artist.

Joanne B Kaar, based in Dunnet, has come up with North to South, which involves sending 250 paper boats each to Caithness, the Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Iceland and Finland in a bid to find out information.

The boats, which have a whaling theme, will be hidden by organisers in the hope they will be found by people and recorded, returned or passed on to others.

Ms Kaar is fascinated by the Magellan daisy which grows in Caithness but is native to Patagonia, Argentina. It is said to have been introduced to the area by whalers, possibly brought home by them as proof they had been south.

Ms Kaar’s project reverses that, asking people to send the boats from the north as far south as they can or return them with any maritime or ancient whaling stories they know. She also wants people to log where the boats were found.

The boats will be hidden soon in public places such as shops, museums, cafés and libraries.

The project’s blog can be found at paperboatsnorthtosouth.blogspot.co.uk where any paper boat finds can be logged.


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