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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Stornoway Airport is becoming increasingly connected with a new service to Southend - some 53 minutes by train from London. Flights are scheduled for six days a week, take just under three hours with an onboard wait of 30 minutes at Glasgow Airport, and fares are from £82.99 one-way. The full story...
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Angus Macdonald (91), probably the last person to be born on the Monach Islands, in the Atlantic beyond North Uist, has died. Aspects of his life-story are featured in The Press and Journal.Scottish Islands Explorer - aware of these remarkable places and peopleDigital Edition: brings news at speed
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To the right of the Rockall photograph, actually 220 yards to the north, is Hasselwood Rock, usually only visible as breaking waves. It is 3 feet above low water and 15 yards in diameter. Most passengers died when the brigantine, Helen, heading for Quebec, struck the rock in 1824. Some 80 years...
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Where better to build The Skye Window House than on the Sleat Peninsula, taking in scenes of sea and Mainland mountains? Click here for details of luxury self catering.Scottish Islands Explorer - also good for viewsDigital Edition: the Window House has wifi
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The lighthouse at Port Ellen gives a sense of perspective to the heavy crossing to Islay for the CalMac ferry. It's captured here by Lynne McCulloch in the current BBC's Your Pictures of Scotland.Scottish Islands Explorer - copies are on sale on that ferry serviceDigital Edition: glides to homes...
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These images of Skerryvore Lighthouse, taken by Ian Cowe, are central to the item, presented by James Petre, in the current edition of Scottish Islands Explorer featured on yesterday's blog. The functional helipad replaced the rusting jetty, in the same way as automation took over from the 'keepers...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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It's hard to believe that we're at the end of February at the moment, with conditions more like the end of April. It's a shame that winter has taken a break recently (due to return this weekend), but it's hard not to enjoy days like we've been experiencing recently, what...
Dave MacLeod
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People are busy, including me. This post goes through how I manage busy work periods from a training point of view. I also discuss a common theme related to failure to recover from climbing injuries which I've discovered through the many thousands of messages I've had from climbers worldwide since...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Over the last 12 years Lochaber Hope has seen a steady increase in customers who are seeking counselling for workplace issues and issues affecting productivity and performance at work, for example stress, relationships, debt or substance misuse. While many employees have access to remote...
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As part of the recent rebrand of Marine Harvest to Mowi, the fish farming company has enlisted Fort William-based All-Round Signs to produce much of its new signage and update vehicle livery with the new logo; a job that is one of All-Round Sign’s biggest of the year. Mowi has been working with All...
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A Moray-based, sister company of Lochaber Chamber of Commerce Northern Engineering and Welding Co. Ltd (NEWCo), engineering and construction firm is celebrating 20 years in business with a calendar of events including a virtual bike ride covering 21,000 miles – the same distance that the firm...
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Old Harbour Master’s invests in new energy efficient glazing Old Harbour Master’s self-catering apartment located on Fassifern Road, Fort William has just invested £15,000 of new glazing and other improvements. The install was handled by ERG Scotland of Invergordon. The new glazing replaced units...
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A progress update on the Highland Cinema project in Cameron Square The Highland Cinema Project is now moving on at a great pace. The previous 1970’s building is now gone and was demolished much quicker than expected. What’s Next? Planning permission for the project has been granted in...
Nevis Range Blog
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Mountain Biking Get your Bikes out the Shed! Both Gondola Accessed Tracks are now open! Tracks are rough in sections, but both running pretty smooth. Mountain Bike Uplift is at a discounted price until the 31st of March at only £25 for an adult and £18.50 for a child. All Snowsports Season pass...
The Sunart Diaries
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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...
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...
Abacus Mountain Guides
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We set a new record today for the most people climbing on Rannoch Wall on a February day. Given the dry warm weather it was an obvious choice but I still didn't expect quite so many people to be there enjoying the conditions. Elved, Tony and I were the fifth team up Agag's Groove, the best V...
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It feels like April in Scotland, with warm springtime weather and a receding snow pack that we would expect to see after a long and fruitful winter. Instead, it's late February and we should be battling storms, snow and serious winter conditions. This does not mean that there is no fun to be...
Craigard Croft
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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...
Treshnish Farm
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We had friends staying last night so this morning we all walked down to the Boathouse before a bowl of soup lunch. It was magical to see a female Hen harrier flying low along the raised beach. I enjoyed hearing the call of a pair of Oystercatchers, as they flew along the waterline. ...
