Life On The Isles Of Scilly - Britain's Most South Westerly Islands

ISLES OF SCILLY, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: Sullivan Bennett picks Soleil d'Or flowers to be sold on the mainland at Borough Farm on St Mary's on February 16, 2017 on the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, England. The temperate Isles of Scilly, with a population of just over 2200, are an archipelago of five main inhabited islands set amongst hundreds of smaller islands and rocky islets, located approximately 28 miles off the south western tip of the Cornish peninsula, making it the most westerly in England and the southernmost location of the United Kingdom. Originally, to sustain the islanders the Scillonian economy relied heavily on trade with the mainland, with industries such as seaweed harvesting, pilotage, smuggling, fishing, shipbuilding and more latterly, flower farming. However, more recently tourism has become the major part of the local economy, estimated to account for 85% of the islands' income and accounting for approximately 63% of all employment. Arrival to the cluster of low-lying islands is currently only by small plane from Exeter, Newquay or Land's End, or and only during the summer, by the passenger ferry Scillonian lll from Penzance. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)