Blog Entries from Scottish Islands Explorer
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
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Last Update: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 09:43
The search for a new teacher on the Isle of Muck is over. There were eight applicants for what appears to be an idyllic island post. There are nine pupils in the primary school and a thriving...
Here is one of the images captured by Tomasz Szatewicz of a rare rainbow show on Skye. He is a landscape photographer and his early morning assignment on the island appears in the Daily Record....
If you have sufficient capital and commitment for a project, here's an opportunity to purchase three-and-a-half acres, a fine view from Vinbreck, Sandwick, Orkney, a farmhouse and extensive out-...
Alistair McIntosh, from Sydney, was heading for Staffa when his camera lens caught the eye of a dolphin. The image now features among the gallery of entries in the BBC's Your Pictures of Scotland...
First comes the long-established human-activity of stone-balancing on a beach. Then comes a craze for the interest as at Skaill Beach, near Skara Brae, Orkney, where the micro-landscape is altered....
There is something particularly appealing about this Victorian villa with views over a harbour, holms and beyond. It's in an elevated position in Stromness, a significant access port for Orkney,...
Here is a house where 'getting-away-from-it-all' applies. It's the former Head Gamekeeper's House at Valamus at the southern, seashore end of the Pairc which is in the south-east corner of the Isle...
The Inner Hebridean island of Raasay is branching out with trials of different varieties of barley. The names of three of the four have a Nordic ring to them. There's the Icelandic Iskria; the...
There is quite a contrast between the high point on the Flannan Isles, where the lighthouse keepers worked, and the almost suburban look to their former shore station, where they rested and families...
When three of the so-called Storegga Landslides occurred along 180 miles of the Norwegian continental shelf in approximately 6225 - 6170 BCE, some 8000 years ago, tsunami resulted. Research into...