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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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...
Scottish Islands Explorer
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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
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2019 has seen a rocket going beyond Pluto and sending back images of Ultima Thule (below). 1934 was the year when the German scientist, Gerhart Zucker, tried to send mail from Scarp to North Harris (above). His experiment failed, but was part of a project that commenced with a similar attempt,...
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Ulva is recruiting … for residents with aptitude and skills. Read the report in The Press and Journal to see whether you would fit in. The island once had 800 residents and so it's accustomed to numbers, despite being down to almost single figures at present. The recent community buyout attracted...
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Getting around the islands in the Orkney group and undertaking financial work for the Royal Bank of Scotland has demanded making some 11,000 flights over the years. Read about Anne Rendall's involvement in the current issue of the Sunday Times.Scottish Islands Explorer - has to been flown to many...
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Linda Geddes writes in the New Scientist, 'In Shetland, doctors are handing out some unconventional prescriptions. Along with regular therapies, people with a range of physical and mental ills are being told to take in the sounds and smells of seabird colonies, build woodland dens or simply...
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The sea cliffs of St Kilda are high and some sections of those on Soay (above) have probably never been climbed. This photograph was taken by Adrian Warren, who died in 2011. Last year a man of 87 found himself fortunate to be alive following a fall on nearby Hirta and a dramatic rescue operation....
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...
Marc Calhoun
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This is the final Isles to Be installment - for now, anyway. The island is Sanda, off the southern tip of the Kintyre Peninsula. The island's previous owners had a go at offering accommodation and a pub. The current owners no longer do that, and do not encourage visitors. When it was operating, the...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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Happy New Year to you all! Andy and I have been out with a small team from the University of Limerick, building on their winter mountaineering and climbing. We kicked things off with a day on Curved Ridge in Glencoe yesterday, looking at moving safely and efficiently on a rocky ridge, as well as...
