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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Borrowed, Lynskey Helix“…and if so why?” A pair of questions I was recently asked on my YouTube channel.Good questions and the answer was too long for a comment. Two years ago we visited my friends in Frances. He allowed me to ride his winter bike - a Lynskey Helix - during our...
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This is an old idea, rejuvenated for a new era of cycling. My initial thoughts are that its pretty good.Redshift Sports make a few niche cycling products and have sent me a couple of them to test. You can see the first test in the video below.The first is this suspension stem - a stem...
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When I saw 'Old Edinburgh Road' on the Ordnance Survey map I knew it would be a great route to try to cycle.When I didn't realise at the time was how important this had been as a pilgrim route, then coaching route to Port Patrick and Ireland.We had a short break in Dumfries and Galloway towards the...
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Next year has been designated the Year of Coasts and Waters in a VisitScotland marketing campaign.Part of that umbrella campaign is one for the west coast called West Coast Waters.It's being promoted with a West Coast Sunset photo competition on Instagram.If you're over 18, just post an Instagram...
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Since buying my gravel bike in May I've seen our part of the Scottish Highlands in a different light.I've cycled most of the roads - there aren't that many. I've hiked lots of the hills, which are mostly too steep to carry up a heavy mountain bike.But with the light gravel bike I'm seeking...
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Arisaig is sea kayak central.The reasons for this also make it a superb location for open water swimming.Those reasons don't need a long explanation, you only have to look at a satellite image of the area (below).If an Almighty Deity smashed a rock with celestial sledge hammer, scattering the...
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The Sonder Camino Ti has helped me re-discover the joy of off-road cycling, so it's no secret I like this bike.However, there are shortcomings. Niggles, really. But let's go back a step.To learn why I bought the Sonder Camino rather than the Kinesis titanium bike I had as a demonstrator...
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When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.So a Rapha brand cycling shirt for £9 plus postage was always going to be slightly dodgy - but how bad could it be?I bought one to find out.My parents used to own fashion shops and, back in the day, the factories which made designer dresses...
West Ardnamurchan Community Council
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (WACC)DRAFT MINUTE OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING HELD AT KILCHOAN COMMUNITY CENTRE ON TUESDAY 29 JANUARY 2020 AT 7PMIntroduction:This meeting started with the formal convening of the new session of WACC, following the usual 4-yearly disbandment and re-election of CC...
Otter Adventures
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Sea kayaking around Ardnamurchan Point is, occasionally, a calm affair and a trip to be savoured. Mostly it is a rough, wild place exposed to the ravages of the North Atlantic storms. Picking the right day to kayak around ‘The Point’ is crucial unless you like your paddling to be...
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A little understanding of what the weather can do to the tides does help explain what occurred last night. It was not simply a case of a ‘very high tide’ – the weather conditions played a significant part in causing the flooding. Storm Brendam being the principal culprit this time...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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Scottish Government under fire for “empty rhetoric” on green energy Small hydro operators have warned that they are facing major economic uncertainty unless Scottish ministers take urgent and permanent action to reduce punitive business rates being imposed on the sector. Operators...
Craigard Croft
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The UK terrorist police think I'm a potentially violent extremist because my white hair, hearing aids, poor eyesight, poorer memory, dodgy knee and the occasional corn on my right foot. Why?...Because I support the aims and activities of Extinction Rebellion along with many other white haired...
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I have always been lucky, my mother once told me...." If you fell in the harbour you'd come out dry with your boots full of fish".Forty years ago I was lucky to be given a Winston Churchill Scholarship to visit the USA to find out about the development of sustainable agriculture. I travelled from...
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Each morning I read the online version of The Guardian (UK equivalent of the Washington Times and France's Le Monde)) and The Times, to get a balanced view of the world.Photo: Patrick Hendry, UnsplashToday's Times ran a report by the United Nations on global greenhouse gas emissions and...
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Sunrise over Morven 14/11/19It's the 14th November and already this month I have filled the water butt with a hosepipe for the livestock three times. It's been unusually dry for three weeks, at a time when we are normally deluged., the sun is shining in a cloudless sky and...
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Thirty years ago when The United States lead the world in the field of environmental ethics I had the opportunity to do a Masters degree in "Environmental Values".Now with the world turned upside down and the USA having won the race to the bottom in the valuing of the environment I...
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science, gave us some good news in the July edition of it's journal, Science. Global mapping of the earth's tree growing potential has shown that has shown that we could restore 4.4 billion hectares (10.6 billion acres) of woodland...
The Sunart Diaries
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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There is a lot of wildlife on Ardnamurchan. It is one of the reasons I returned here time and again … and came back more permanently in 2018. Some of the wildlife is obvious. The never-ending parties of tits, siskins and finches on the bird feeders. A white tailed eagle effortlessly gliding...
