Wild Lochaber Blogs
The latest bleats from the sheep on the street...
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets 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.
Scottish Islands Explorer
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The name of Jura may have come from the Norse for the 'Island of Deer' or from the Gaelic work 'diura' meaning resilient or durable. The herds of deer have been both resilient and prolific, with early writers mentioning some 300 of the creatures and the current number of around 7,000. The image...
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There's a new custom in Shetland - cross the Sound of Bressay from Lerwick and take the Parkrun. Some 40 people a week are doing just that and they are coming from far and wide. The BBC website has the story.Scottish Islands Explorer - why not run for a copy from your newsagent?Digital Edition: it...
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Here's an interesting contrast. Objections have been raised concerning the proposed building of new houses close to the Clickmin Broch, Lerwick. See Shetland News. Separately, 40 acres of land and a demolished valve house adjacent to a Shetland loch remain on sale at £60k, but without, as yet,...
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Here is an Embraer 145 aircraft which will soon appear in Loganair livery operating on Benbecula and Manchester routes. The details of the improved services are in the Stornoway Gazette.Scottish Islands Explorer - distribution aided by air mailDigital Edition: distribution at the speed of light
Glenloy Wildlife
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A Happy and Prosperous New Year from Glenloy Wildlife! I realise it has been some time since I wrote an update, but as usual things have been hectic since the tail of last season. At the end of October we visited our eldest son in Washington DC. Managed to get some wildlife watching in along [...
Simon Willis
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This is a great phone case for a cyclist and it's made by Cycle Of Good. Even if you read no further, please click that link and check them out.The pouch is 'weatherproof', by which I mean it would be fine in a rear pocket, under a rain jacket, but don't try submerging it.It's made from...
Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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December 2001(about)? Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis with Ed & Matt Ed Abbley, Matt Leggett and I had a great 3 days of climbing at the beginning of winter back in December 2001. We stayed in the Glen Nevis SYHA Hostel. We left every morning in the dark, hours before dawn. Our first day was to climb...
Dave MacLeod
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Here are three strategies I use in my own climbing to reflect on the previous year and plan for better results in the coming year, with some examples of how to implement them. Near the end of this video, I discuss some supplementation I do while recovering from tendon/ligament injuries. The paper...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Previously Marine Harvest, the company changed its name to Mowi as of January 1st, 2019. The company’s shares will be quoted on Oslo Børs with the new name and the new ticker “MOWI”. Alf-Helge Aarskog, CEO of Mowi said; Mowi is an inspirational name that recalls our pioneering spirit...
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The West Highland Museum welcomed its 56,000 visitor on 31st December 2018 exceeding a footfall not seen for nearly 40 years! The ‘special’ 56,000th visitor, Sarah Dungey, was visiting the area from Cornwall with her husband Mark. They have been visitors to Scotland over the...
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Great success and reception for Lochaber Hope Panto ‘A Little Hope’ Lochaber Hope received rave reviews for their first pantomime production. They offered a chance to showcase local talent and bring awareness to local issues. Lochaber High School Big Band kicked off the whole...
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Recognition for local company Great Glen Charcuterie in Country Living national press Great Glen Charcuterie were recently featured in Country Living Magazine, celebrating rural businesses. The six page magazine feature showcased the Lochaber company, and the local area in which they operate...
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blas announce their future expansion and investment plans and reflect on the past year Phase 1 Phase 1 was the opening of blas and giving a home to its own Lochaber Gin, distilled under contract at Glenshee Distillery. blas has achieved a successful opening season, with great feedback, 5...
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New initiative to celebrate and promote local food and drink Lochaber Environmental Group has just been awarded funding from the Local Connect Regional Food Fund which seeks to celebrate and promote locally produced food and drink throughout Scotland. LEG’s ‘Lochaber Food’ initiative...
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ILM Highland has utilised connections with Interface to join forces with the University of Strathclyde and develop innovative solutions ILM (Highland) has joined forces with the University of Strathclyde to develop innovative solutions to electrical waste, turning what would be processed for...
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A week piloting the second ADVENT module The ADVENT (Adventure Tourism Vocational Education and Training) project headed to Kuusamo, Finland to pilot test the second module; Local Knowledge. Ian MacLeod of Wild West Safaris participated in the piloting of this module during November 2018...
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Flexible online modules for adventure tourism businesses now available to pilot test online! We have been working with partners on an Erasmus+ project called AVIP (Adventure Tourism Innovation Partnerships) to develop flexible online modules to enhance the skills of adventure tourism...
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Congratulations to Ashleigh O’Hagan from Fort William for winning the Shop Local Prize Draw this year. We are delighted with the number of entries this year, and Ashleigh was drawn at random with her purchase from Off Beat Bikes. Entries came from local businesses in the Lochaber area...
wondering wanderers
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We’ve been hinting and alluding to next steps in the planning and while we are still waiting for all the details to fall into place we have enough of a vision of what we’d like our lives to look like that we can share that vision. As has happened before with sharing ideas and plans on...
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I’m almost at the end of my year with the self indulgent posts (teens birthdays, end of the actual year, my own birthday) and I do have plenty of mentally half composed posts about crofting stuff and what we’re planning next but first please bear with me while I get my own personal...
