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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Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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At Ardtornish we are lucky enough to have the most biodiverse nature reserve in the Scottish Wildlife Trust portfolio. The management committee of the reserve have established a creative residency to promote the reserve to a wider audience and to raise funds for winter work. This year...
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The highlands has many remote and difficult to access spots, but few capture the imagination quite like the island of St Kilda. A journey to this near-mythical outpost, 40 miles into the Atlantic, is akin to approaching the edge of the world as well as stepping back in time. What is it...
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The Highlands & Islands are blessed with some of the best beaches in the world. Some keep coming back for the amazing views, to play with their children, walk their dogs or to go fishing, but for a small group of enthusiasts it’s the beachcombing that is the major attraction. Part...
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This recipe is simple to create and makes the most incredibly tasty meal that is bursting with flavour. Ingredients 1kg Ardtornish shin of beef, on the bone 1/4 cup seasoned flour 2.5cm piece cinnamon stick 2 whole cloves 1-star anise 2 strips of pared...
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CEO UPDATE Spring is upon us and after a long hard winter we are looking forward to warmer weather. My team is completing preparations for the new season. DA MacDonald, our main contractor on the hydro work is completing the work programme on the Socaich extension and the estate is...
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In a world where digital entertainment, fast food and exotic foreign holidays are the norm, what place is there for something as unreconstructed and old fashioned as the Highland Games? In a curious contrast to the speed of change in the modern world, the games have in recent years...
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13th – 22nd July 2018Morvern Highland Games is held in the small community of Lochaline across the water from the island of Mull on the beautiful Morvern Peninsula. Held annually on the second Saturday following the first Monday in July at Knock Park, Lochaline, Morvern. The Morvern...
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In any combat scenario it is essential to know your enemy, so here then is the lowdown on that most fearsome of opponents, that fabled beast known for defeating intrepid globetrotters and reducing the most hardened holidaymakers to tears. The Scottish midge. Complaining about the...
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25 years from 2018 – incorporating ecological restorationThis consultation document – which we hope will circulate widely – is intended to gather opinions about plans to change land use at Ardtornish. It proposes, over a long period – perhaps fifty years or more – to restore a more...
The Mingarry Blodge
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Many of our guests at Mingarry Lodges arrive by The Corran Ferry crossing Loch Linnhe to the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. Just one of the many wee journeys across the sea awaiting you on your holiday in The West Highlands. The Treshnish Isles, Mull, Skye, Eigg, Rum, Canna and Muck and all within easy...
Craigard Croft
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Over the years the Barrisdale bothy had a bad press....." The worst bothy I've experienced....infested with mice....garbage..... unclean.... blocked up fireplace".http://forums.outdoorsmagic.com/showthread.php/10593-knoydart-barrisdale-bothy-infohttps://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/hilltalk/...
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A little safer nowToday, Friday 27th April 2018 the european Union banned the outdoor use of three neonicotinoid insctcicides. But this still leaves some of them in widespread use including acetamiprid the active ingredient in Gazelle which is used widely in our forests to contol large bark beetle....