Ardnamurchan Area Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
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Simon Willis
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It has become one of Scotland’s great off-road cycling trails. Yet planning a ride can be tricky, partly due to the fickle weather, but mainly due to the mix of surfaces, from tarmac to mud, made trail to loose stones. Most cyclists wonder, ‘what bike should I use...
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These are the Rules for the giveaway running on the Always Another Adventure YouTube channel from 12th December 2021.The prize is a used set of Kitchen Sink bikepacking handlebars with front loop by Redsfity sports. They are 44mm and you can find full specifications on the Redshift...
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It was Sean who devised this route. I’m not shifting blame you understand, I’m giving him the credit, because we ended up with one of the best four-day Autumn rides I’ve done in Scotland.We’re fortunate enough to have some epic bikepacking routes in this country - An Turas Mor, the Highland...
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Think of it as a mid-life crisis motorbike, but without the motor. Actually, don't. I've already had several of them and I'm probably past mid-life now. Just think of it as a treat to myself. My excellent road bike is showing its age. My gravel bike is great, but a...
Craigard Croft
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Five years ago I planted a shelter belt of mainly broadleaves on the western boundary of the croft and have kept the grass under control with a mix of Roundup and strimming but I don't like using herbicide and strimming is hard work. So I thought , "geese can subsist on grass and two of them...
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Two weeks ago the French equivalent of "The Guardian", "Le Monde", published a lucid, well argued and well written article outlining the case for banning hunting in France ( I read "Le Monde" from time to time to keep up my French and I'm almost totally deaf so conversations are difficult.)...
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My first close encounter with an Ardnamurchan otter was twelve years ago in my workshop. I was using and angle grinder and listening to Radio 2 when a young otter appeared at the door, I switched everything off. ...... It sniffed the air and sauntered in, right up to the freezer sniffed...
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On Wednesday it was first light at about 6.00 am when we parked the truck, set off into the woods and the wind looking for roe deer. My guide Tony had been out scouting the area the previous evening when he had seen red and roe deer, he was confident and optimistic. We followed a well...
Sunart Community Company
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There have been two recent presentations on the benefits of community woodlands. You can read these by clicking on the links below. Community woodlands presentations November 9, 2021 in...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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The Adventures of Algy
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It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that... (Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 16:53)It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that inevitable “HOW long did you say it was till spring?” October Tuesday feeling… When he could see the sky at all it was a uniform pale grey from edge to edge, but that was only when it was not obscured by a thick blanket of fine Scotch...
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Sunday morning started out to be cool and damp, and became a great deal cooler and damper when the wild west wind swept mist and rain in from the mighty Atlantic ocean, which was only a bird’s hop away…But Algy was not daunted. The one thing he had particularly missed during his adventures in the...
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The weather was in a highly erratic mood, swinging rapidly between glorious autumn sunshine which revealed a sky of a most unusual colour for the wild west coast of the Scottish Highlands, and huge sulky grey clouds which drained all the colour out of the landscape and brought yet more rain to the...
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Monday morning was one of sudden changes in the weather, when drenching showers rushed across the sky chased by dazzling autumn sunshine, which lasted only a few minutes before it, too, fled away to the east, pursued by huge black clouds lit up from time to time by a beautiful rainbow.Algy hopped...
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The following day was somewhat calmer but continued persistently wet, although the rain was evidently getting fed up with falling the entire time, as it only dribbled aimlessly, on and off, in a decidedly half-hearted and desultory sort of way, no doubt having exhausted itself in the torrential...
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Algy thoroughly enjoyed his wind-driven ride in the old downy birch tree, but after a while he began to feel hungry again, for he had only managed to eat a few rowan berries before the wind had defeated him.Fortunately there was a handsome cotoneaster growing close to the birch, and it was...
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It was not long before Algy tired of trying to catch falling... (Monday, September 27, 2021 - 18:01)It was not long before Algy tired of trying to catch falling rowan berries while balanced on his back in the blasting wind, and when he had eaten a few he began to think that perhaps it was time to play a different game…As some of Algy’s more longstanding friends may remember, there is a certain...
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When he had slowly gathered his wits about him, Algy turned around and noticed that in his absence his assistants had installed a smart new deer fence, no doubt in an effort to keep the iconic and “Romantic” Highland cows and red deer - which the tourists so much loved to photograph - from...
