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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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Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles

  • Arum again (Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:03)
    I have been to see Seth’s Arum in Broadford. As he said at the time, it is odd that it is a clumped patch. This is a feature of A. italicum and a completely green version of A. italicum ssp. neglectum (rather than A. italicum ssp. italicum) is known (see Poland). There are differences between...
  • Lords-and-Ladies (Friday, February 28, 2025 - 10:08)
    Seth has spotted Arum maculatum (Lords-and-Ladies) in Broadford. It is close to a garden, but there doesn’t appear to be any Arum in there. Arum maculatum at Broadford Image: S J D Gibson This is the first localised record for the vice-county. There are four anonymous, old (1950/57)...

Marc Calhoun

  • Eorsa (Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 17:14)
    Eorsa lay like a scallop-shell on the fringe of the western sea, its concave face opening to the wide ocean, the sunset, and the strung jet beading that was the line of the Outer Hebrides. The view from a fictional Eorsa — the novel Bridal Path, Nigel Tranter (1952)Unlike...
  • Easdale of the Slate Isles (Monday, February 17, 2025 - 19:28)
    Easdale was a significant milestone, as it was the final island on my final cruise as a guide on Hjalmar Bjørge. We'd spent the morning on na h-EiIeacha Naomha of the Garvellachs. Upon learning none of the guests had been to Easdale, I decided to make it the last island of the cruise.And so, on a...
  • Na h-Eileacha Naomha of the Isles of the Sea (Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 00:49)
    After exploring Inchkenneth, we set a course to na h-Eileacha Naomha, one of the Garvellachs, also known as The Isles of the Sea. On the island are the ruins of St Brendan's Monastery, which include two of the largest beehive cells in the Hebrides. The island is unusual in that it has four...
  • Inchkenneth (Friday, January 24, 2025 - 00:48)
    After a night at anchor in Lon Bearnus, we set a course west to circle around Ulva and Gometra. With the always-tempting Treshnish isles dotting the horizon to the west, we made our way along the southern coast of Ulva. Once past the collonaded castles, we motored into the shallow waters between...
  • Rum and Dutchman's Cap (Sunday, December 29, 2024 - 00:46)
    After a night at anchor off Hallaig, we set a course south to transit under the Skye Bridge. That gave me a brief look at two historic sites. To port was the Eilean Ban lighthouse and cottages, made famous by Gavin Maxwell. To starboard was a lesser-known historic site, the Chain Stone of Skye....
  • Return to South Rona (Saturday, December 7, 2024 - 20:50)
    The September 2024 cruise on Hjalmar Bjorge was different than any I’d done before. Due to cancellations, there were only two guests, which made my job as a guide much easier. What made it not so easy was the weather. Force 8 gales were streaming off the Atlantic and had blown away my plans for a...

Treshnish Farm

  • A new project (Sunday, February 23, 2025 - 00:24)
    Visitors to Treshnish over the last few months may have noticed signs of something happening, along the track past the farm building towards Haunn.This is where we are building a house.  A year ago we were barely taking the first steps towards this, and now here we are.. the kit arrives on...
  • A new year (Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 22:25)
     Happy New Year! Feeding sheep on cold winter's morningsFrosty ground and a dusting of snow on the hill behind Ensay New feed buckets One each Waiting.. waiting..Hungry hens on ground covered with hail Breakfast view, January 8thThe Aurora tree in the morning ...
  • December days (Friday, December 20, 2024 - 00:09)
     
  • November notes (Friday, November 29, 2024 - 23:24)
    I am writing this in late December, the ground is saturated from a lot of rain, and I had forgotten until I looked through the photographs I had made in November that we actually had some good weather!  So much so, there were several days I was able to fly my drone.The annual Scottish...

The Rum Ranger Diaries

  • 12 Days of Christmas Wild Day 4: 28 Dec: Looking up:... (Saturday, December 28, 2019 - 16:03)
    12 Days of Christmas Wild Day 4: 28 Dec: Looking up: Wind-sculpted clouds. As a photographer, you always wish for interesting skies, and today’s were stunning! I see a vague whale shape in this sky, and it reminded me of a sci-fi short story I read years ago: whales had been transported along...
  • #zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:44)
    #zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Gx-y5nd2Q/?igshid=12bl9kueiyp97
  • #cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #walking... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:43)
    #cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GzZf-nWrT/?igshid=12k0izlh7sndn
  • Alarmingly more cattle gathered on the ridge in a very short... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:43)
    Alarmingly more cattle gathered on the ridge in a very short space of time! #cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #howmanycows #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6G0CLFnVI8/?igshid=1426ssicrgq8x
  • Another angle of the huge whale skull #beachlife #seashore... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:43)
    Another angle of the huge whale skull #beachlife #seashore #whaleskull #whalebone #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6G1GOSHxVg/?igshid=ycmklgh24l6w
  • #zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:09)
    #zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Gx-y5nd2Q/?igshid=12w0ynnt6yxgc

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