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.
West Ardnamurchan Community Council
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCILMINUTES OF MEETING HELD AT THE NADURRA NATURE CENTRE, GLENMORE ON MONDAY 8th APRIL 2019 AT 7PM1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIESPresent:Geoff Campbell (Chair) (GCC) May...
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL A MEETING WILL BE HELD AT NADURA NATURE CENTRE, GLENMORE ON MONDAY 8TH APRIL AT 7PM AGENDA 1. Welcome & Apologies ...
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCILMINUTES OF MEETING HELD AT THE KILCHOAN LEARNING CENTRE, KILCHOAN ON MONDAY 11th MARCH 2019 AT 7PM 1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIESPresent: ...
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL A MEETING WILL BE HELD AT KILCHOAN LEARNING CENTRE ON MONDAY 11TH MARCH AT 7PMAGENDA1. Welcome & Apologies ...
The Sunart Diaries
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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job … Winston Churchill, 1941. Although this one might take some time … Sunart Diarist, 2019 Whatever the job, having suitable tools usually makes it much easier. And safer. One of my top priority jobs at the moment is clearing a large amount of...
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The plot on Ardnamurchan is south facing hillside and was originally probably a mix of scrubby birch and oak woodland with dense ground cover of bracken. Over the years rhododendron have infested the site and, despite being cut back severely 10-15 years ago, still predominate. I’m working...
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The B8007 is the sinuous single track road linking the villages of Salen and Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. This 19 mile, often tortuous, tarmac strip does a lot to protect the remoteness and largely unspoiled environment of the peninsula. Particularly at the eastern end, the combination...
Simon Willis
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Buying bike can be a fraught experience. I've previously complained that you're not allowed to test ride bikes which shops don't stock. If you want something that's not in stock, then you have to pay for it before they'll get it in. I understand why they do this, but it's not great from the buyer's...
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Last weekend we went paddling again. This time, however, it was in a canoe. Our friends Colin and Katrina run Source-2-Sea canoe adventures. We introduced Colin to wild swimming and they volunteered to take us paddling. Again. The cross-over between canoeing and kayaking is...
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I'd thoroughly recommend this trip, provided you understand what it truly is. That's the point of writing this blog and making the videos.Biking Dutchman had no editorial input and I made the videos for myself, not their business. We paid full price and have received no benefit from the...
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As part of a superb swimming holiday in the Galapagos and mountain biking holiday that took in the high volcanoes and Amazon jungle, we stayed in Quito on three separate occasions.Video and story of the mountain biking coming next week.We learnt a few things which I thought it might be helpful to...
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It only happens occasionally, but sometimes I can feel a good photograph going into the camera.I felt it Sunday when I took the shot alongside of a young swimmer, slightly apprehensive perhaps, before the charity swim I'd helped to organise.We did the recce swim back in January so she knew it...
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Swim with the marine wildlife of the Galapagos and you will never, ever forget it. Our holiday with SwimTrek was not cheap. Yet the experiences of this week will flash across my fading memory years from now.If you're considering it there were a few practical aspects of this ...
Craigard Croft
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I have worked with all types of farm animals during the last 60 years and the two most attractive are goats, they are intelligent, clean, efficient milk producers, small, friendly, affectionate and safe around small children. Milking twice a day got too much for me in my seventies...
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Twenty years ago we were staying in a Canadian Alpine Club hut in the Rocky Mountains, the occupants were international but all European. The log hut was situated in a alpine meadow, there were vast supplies of firewood for the stove, rocking chairs and rough hewn tables, it was perfect. Then came...
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These blog posts flit between North Northumberland and Kilchoan. Today it's a possible pine marten sighting in the West Wood between Harbottle and Sharperton. Elliot the Red Squirrel Group trapper and ecologist has a blurred image on one of his camera traps, it might just be a pine marten.Two...
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Some few thousands of years after the end of the last ice age (10,000 bp) a great wood extended across Scotland from the valleys of the Cairngorm plateau to glens of Lochaber in the west. The climate was warmer and drier, soils were better drained and less acid. Pine trees thrived.Trees of many...
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The earliest ancestors of my hens were domesticated in S.E.Asia over 5,000 years ago, these Red Jungle fowl lived in the jungle undergrowth and woody scrub that provided food, shade and shelter. Watch your hens and you will see many behaviours that originated in woodland.Woodland eggs in the new...
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Many thanks to those of you who voted in support of the Coquetdale Red Squirrel Group funding bid with the AVIVA Community Fund ( 25/10/ 2018). Your votes got us through to the final but we failed to win the £10,000 needed.Feedback from the AVIVA judging panel said that the project was innovative...
Otter Adventures
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For me there is no doubt that wildlife watching on the water, in canoe or kayak, is far better than on land. It is almost as though the forna doesn’t expect you to be there. As less people venture on the water than on land we are the ones being watched. As you are in […] The post...
