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.
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Norfab, a leading manufacturer & supplier of fish farm equipment to the aquaculture industry, is pleased to report the successful movement of live brood fish for AquaGen (one of the worlds’ largest salmon breeding company with its head office in Trondheim and major production operations in...
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Corpach Boatbuilding Company has joined Gael Force Group Ltd, in a strategically significant move which could strengthen the West of Scotland’s boat building industry and see the introduction of steel feed barge building on the West coast. With potential to expand workforce and capabilities at...
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Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Minister for Further & Higher Education and visited West Highland College UHI in Fort William last week (Monday November 19).This was the Minister’s first visit to the college and, over a lunch prepared by Professional Cookery students, he met with Lydia Rohmer,...
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The Importance of good mental health What can employers do to help support their staff and how Lochaber Hope can help? Lochaber Hope are now offering an Employment Assisted Programme to assist employers in supporting their staff. What can employers do, and how can Lochaber Hope help? EAP,...
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A New Way to Engage with Local Social Enterprise ILM Highland have now expanded their service to offer a delivery service across Lochaber ILM (Highland) is a social enterprise and registered charity, and has been delivering valuable services across the Highlands for almost 25 years. Their...
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A Number of Bookings for the New Year Fort William Marina and Shoreline Company have secured a number of cruise ships booked to dock in Fort William in 2019 For a season spanning March to October, there are 17 cruise ships booked to visit Fort William with numbers of passengers ranging from 50 to...
Scottish Islands Explorer
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The South Lochs area of the Isle of Lewis has much to offer and a contemporary house at Garyvard - the Poet's Garden - is something special. Take a look through Zoopla and see what's on offer - at around £127.5k.Scottish Islands Explorer - has much space to offerDigital Edition: every property...
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When the Orkney Islands Council showed an interest in purchasing Faray and adjacent islands, it was driven by an interest to undertake wind farm development there. One of its strategies is to create a 'carbon neutral' county. The area is certainly rich in resources of wind and wave forces. Read...
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It's not hard to see why - on merely glancing at this photo of Luskentyre, Harris - the Scottish islands are listed on the world's top travel destinations. Study the report in The Press and Journal.Scottish Islands Explorer - a magazine featuring special places …Digital Edition: … that can be...
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An article in the New York Times considers the interests of residents as well as visitors to Shetland.Scottish Islands Explorer - words woven to give insightsDigital Edition: traverses the Atlantic in a thrice
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As more cars feature in everyday life for both residents and visitors in the Western Isles, the bus service requirements need to be monitored. The Council has set up a survey - operating from today until Saturday 15 December. Details are in a Stornoway Gazette item. If you have a request, then put...
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Yesterday's blog saw a substantial number of visitors considering the invitation to look at an Eday property. The Orkney island may have a rainbow appeal to some or sufficient to encourage a sunny disposition in others. It is over ten square miles in size; is eight miles long and narrows to around...
Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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14th Dec 2001- I think. Little Tryfan, North Wales. Early winter Back in 2001 I was working in South Wales on Gower. I made a lot of trips up to North Wales, year round – and this particular trip was to climb with Kate Smith and Lois Woodward. I think it was Lois’ first time climbing in...
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Max climbing in the sun, in Spain Sunrise in November, in El Chorro, Spain Lena climbing through some steep ground Lena climbing through a vertical field of limestone Olives growing in the sun, in El Chorro Lena climbing in the sun, in Spain Sport Climbing in El Chorro, Spain Ben Nevis from Dun...
Craigard Croft
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I can't remember ever agreeing with anything that the Michael Gove ( UK Environment Minister ) has said or done in this job or in his previous incarnations in government. But this time I have to agree with his grounds for rejecting plans to reintroduce European lynx into Kielder Forest. The...
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Coquetdale red squirrels again........ thank you for your votes. (Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 13:34)Thanks to your support the Coquetdale Squirrel Group are through to the final of the Aviva Community Fund project funding. Now we have to provide additional information for the judges to supplement the project submission. they want to know more about the need for our project, how the money will be...
Marc Calhoun
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I have been posting on islands that I have not yet been able to visit. While deciding which island to write about next, I noticed, on my blog statistics page, that a post I did on Little Colonsay last year, an island I've never been to, had a large number of hits in the past week. I had to scratch...
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Another Isle to Be for me is Sulaisgeir, a small islet 10 miles west of North Rona. It is so exposed to the open sea that conditions need to be just right to get ashore. Adding to the difficulty of getting ashore is that there is no place to anchor. Someone has to man the ship, keeping it...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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The post appeared first on West Coast Mountain Guides.
Treshnish Farm
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I don't know where the days have gone since my last post in early November. Instead of trying to recap on the farm story for the missing 2 months, and given that it is now the end of the year, I thought I would post a photographic record of the year in 4 posts instead!
