Cam Cameron, who hopes to spend up to 60 days on Atlantic islet, has shopping list including fast-setting cement and a radio
An adventurer who plans to break the record for living on
Cameron said his greatest frustration was forgetting to pack a shortwave radio so he could talk to his friends and family; his satellite-enabled laptop has been erratic, making it far harder than he expected to communicate with home.He could also pick up music and the weather forecast – Rockall is famously one of the Met Office’s maritime forecast zones. It is exposed to huge winter storms, with waves powerful enough to make the 17.5-metre-high rock vibrate on impact.
There were “many things I now wish I had packed but thought better of it”, Cameron said via text message. “Radio is the biggest regret. I do have one but I was so preoccupied with logistics and transport and funding and weather that I forgot about what I personally needed for the trip. For my own comfort and sanity.”His only company on Hall’s Ledge, which measures 4 metres by 1.5 metres, are the cacophonous seabirds that inhabit Rockall; their guano and nests “stink”, he said.
Cameron has had two visits so far: on 4 June the Scottish marine protection vessel Hirta came by. They “dropped me off a lovely Red Cross parcel”, he said. “So nice to see them. Also SY Boomerang with her skipper Eddie stopped off on 7 June but no one since.”The Rockall expedition has become famous among sailors and ham radio enthusiasts after Cameron’s companions, Adrian “Nobby” Styles and Emil Bertsmann, broadcast to 7,300 hams worldwide while they were on the rock.
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