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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Otter Adventures
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Everyone’s idea of adventure is different; especially when it is a family adventure. So a bespoke family adventure allows you to get exactly what you want from your trip. No matter whether you want to travel by canoe, by bike or on foot, I will devise a unique adventure to suit you that is...
The Mingarry Blodge
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Everytime we drive over the bridge to The Isle of Syke and pass the sign for the Gavin Maxwell Museum we say to ourselves, "we really must visit this place sometime". We both remember as children watching the Ring of Bright Water and being deeply moved by Gavin's story of his love of otters and...
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Earlier this year we headed out on The Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig. Often described as one of the most scenic railway journeys in the world, our journey on this historic steam train did not disappoint. The steam train journey along the West Highland Railway is very popular so...
A Kilchoan Diary
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It seems appropriate to start the last post of the Kilchoan Diary with the picture that appeared on the very first post, on 15th October 2009. It showed the Loch Linnhe approaching Mingary Pier at ten to eight in the morning, with an explosive sunrise behind it. The picture was responsible for the...
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There was a time when rabbits were much more common here. When we first had the Ferry Stores we used to watch them in the evenings playing on the grass by Shore Cottage but I understand that, years ago, they were much more abundant - Sanna has been described as over-run with them. It may be that...
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We came to West Ardnamurchan in 1996 to run the shop. We didn't know much about retailing, and keeping the shelves well-stocked was always a challenge, but the support from the community as a whole, and the staff in particular, made the experience a pleasure. We never felt we 'owned' the shop, more...
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One of the things I have learnt in the last few years is that photographs often don't come out the way one expects them to. With such limited knowledge of digital photography, I simply point the camera, press the button, and then hope that the settings were right - and occasionally, very...
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The buzzard may be the most common of the local raptors but it doesn't make this bird any less impressive. It's only when one sees one up close - usually perched on a post and approached in a car - that one realises how large they are.They have a hard life. There isn't a bird, large or small, that...
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Sunrise, just before half past six this morning, promised well for the day so we set off for a walk early........noting, as we passed along the edge of Kilchoan Bay, that some of the Kilchoan sheep had managed to get themselves marooned by the rising tide, something which happens not infrequently....
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Comar's 'Face' tour is at Kilchoan Community Centre on Saturday 16th September - more details here.We're still trying to clear our house. The following are available, prices negotiable:Apple iMac, several years old but in very good condition, running Snow Leopard. Free to a good home.Office Chairs...
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The Raptor's superb picture graphically describes the winds that batter Ardnamurchan Point and scour the peninsula. One day, during a particularly vicious storm, we stood outside our house at the Ferry Stores and watched a near-hurricane strip slates off the roof and send them bowling down the road...
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Thank you, thank you so very, very much, to everyone for yesterday afternoon's party in the Community Centre which gave us an opportunity to say our goodbyes. Particular thanks to those who organised it, who cooked for and cleared up after it, who spoke so very kindly of us, who chauffeured us...
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This post isn't 'news' at all but a small 'thank you' to the small birds who have been our constant companions through the years we've lived on Ardnamurchan. They're not much different from small birds elsewhere which we've encouraged with ridiculous amounts of food but........we've never ceased to...
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We have been on very intimate terms with some of the local insects. Having always assumed that ticks are only carried by animals such as deer and sheep, we discovered that birds must also carry them, which explained why we collected so many while picking raspberries in our vegetable patch.Ticks...
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Plocaig, Bourblaige & Camas Nan Geall, Ardnamurchan from FourK Media on Vimeo.Many thanks indeed to Ross Gilfillan for another super video.
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The following items are available, prices negotiable:Dehumidifier, hardly used - £30Office Chair, good quality, swivel - £25B&W Laser Printer - £5Magimix Food Processor - £10Silver & Bone Fish Knife & Fork Set, Vintage - £5RISK Board Game - £5Angle Grinder, small, little used, with...
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For the past twelve years we have lived in a house which faces southeast and which has a view which extends some twenty miles down the Sound of Mull. One of the joys of this view is that we have seen so many winter sunrises, this one from our bedroom window on a still February morning.In those...
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There's almost always a ship or a boat out in the Sound at any time of day or night, and we have spent hours over the years watching them from our house. The Lord of the Glens, a small cruise ship which is more at home in the Caledonian Canal and rarely ventures out beyond the protection of the...
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The summits of most of Western Ardnamurchan's hills offer magnificent panoramas, not least because the place is a peninsula so there are always combinations of land, sea and sky. This view is from the western slopes of Ben Hiant looking along the south coast towards Kilchoan. The hill in the...
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Mingary Castle had been abandoned for over 150 years when, in 2013, the Mingary Castle Preservation & Restoration Trust was set up to save the castle from imminent collapse and give it a modern purpose.It was my considerable privilege to be given open access to the castle throughout the three-...
