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.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Simon Willis
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The Kintyre Way was ahead of its time. Established in 2006, it's a good 100 mile walking route, usually split over seven days. However, since its inception a new breed of outdoor transport has appeared, the gravel bike. It's a hybrid of road and mountain bikes,...
Craigard Croft
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It's the open season for hunting Roe bucks , it starts on April Fools day and ends on 31st October Halloween. So tomorrow morning out in the woods along the loch there'll be a stalker hoping to shoot one, perhaps for a trophy head, to top up the freezer or to keep the deer population under...
Sunart Community Company
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Oakwood now has it’s own website, with a selection of items from the shop that can be posted to you or you can buy online and pick up in the shop. You can also buy gift cards or make a donation to the community fund. Visit www.oakwoodtourismandcrafts.co.uk to view it.
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There have been some updates to the ongoing Longrigg purchase feasibility study this month. For more info please read the overview here and for the latest detailed documentation please see here. We would like to acknowledge the work of those from the community who stepped forward to form the...
The Adventures of Algy
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The constant, biting wind chilled Algy to such an extent that he could not stop shivering, and he realised that he must look for a more sheltered spot without further delay. As the country was entirely new to him, Algy had no idea what he might find by setting off in any particular direction, but...
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With his energy fully restored by the consumption of a substantial helping of sunflower seeds, Algy began to take an interest in his surroundings, despite the continuing aches and pains which were the inevitable consequence of his crash landing.He seemed to be in an extensive landscape of dry,...
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As Algy slowly recovered consciousness he sensed that he was lying face down on some very hard and scratchy kind of ground, and wondered in a dazed sort of way how he could have got there.Slowly it came back to him: the long, long flight over the ocean, the increasingly wild electric storm, the...
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Algy flew up, up into the bright blue sky, and away across a vast expanse of ocean. At first the position of the sun suggested that he was heading south-east, but after a while he completely lost his sense of direction, for the sun had been engulfed by a rapidly enlarging mass of menacing clouds....
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So Algy quickly picked up his spray of magical cherry blossom, holding it carefully in his beak but making sure that it did not sit under his tongue, and jumped up into the air before the island faded away entirely.And then he flew up, up, up and away, high into the blue, without the slightest idea...
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When Algy awoke the next morning he had the most vivid memory of his fabulous ride on the miniature Ferris wheel, but he was unable to decide whether it had simply been a dream, a figment of his imagination, or whether he had really shrunk to a tiny size and ridden round and round on the magical...
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Algy slept happily beneath the sheltering cherry trees, and dreamed a most marvellous dream…He dreamed that he was talking to the Easter bunny, beside the magical ferris wheel, which for the moment had stopped turning and had an empty seat at the bottom, just ready and waiting for a wee fluffy bird...
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When Algy woke up on Easter Saturday he found that the strange island - which had seemed almost deserted the day before, except for a small brown bird in the bushes - was suddenly bustling with all kinds of activity. Flowers had sprung up overnight, birds had built nests, chicks had already...
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Algy was beginning to think that there was something a wee bit strange about this new island he had reached… It really wasn’t quite like anywhere he had been before…He was resting quietly on the grass after his experience with the vanishing statue, when suddenly some cherry trees grew up at an...
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When the frogs saw Algy struggling to leave the ground with his heavy hammock backpack, they quickly hopped back out of the jungle to assist him. Carefully removing the burden from his back, they suggested that perhaps it might be wiser to send his belongings on by ship, assuring him that they...
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Algy was relaxing quietly on his magical island, recovering from his unfortunate fall from the swinging hammock, when an excited flock of tropical birds swept by overhead, shrieking and chattering about a fireworks display which was to be held in honour of a very special birthday - a birthday which...
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Algy swung to and fro in his hammock until eventually the soothing effect of the motion, combined with the strange tropical music and the fragrant sea breezes, lulled him to sleep. He dreamed the dreams of a happy fluffy bird on a magical tropical island, until suddenly… he woke up with a terrible...
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As some of Algy’s friends will know, Algy’s amanuensis, Jenny Chapman, has a sideblog currently...
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lovefromalgy:Now that Algy’s very exciting 9th Tumblr Birthday Party is finally over, Algy will...
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As the tide approached its lowest point, Algy perched on a rock at the end of the north beach, surrounded by masses of slippery seaweed. Like a wee, eager child, Algy was feeling very excited because it was almost his birthday, and in his mind he was planning all the details of his party on...
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Many of the beaches of the Hebrides and west coast of the Scottish Highlands are famous for their beautiful, pale shell sand, and Algy’s beach was no exception. And of course where there is shell sand, there are frequently empty shells which are no longer the homes of living creatures but which...
