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.
The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website.
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Last Update: Monday, February 18, 2019 - 08:00
The Hillswick Animal Sanctuary, Shetland, is lined up to receive half-a-million-pounds for upgrading its facilities. Look into the acquisition of funding from two major sources through The Press and...
The Lookout Bothy on the Isle of Skye was used as a coastguard station as late as the 1970s, while the Camasunary Bothy to the south of the island is a comparatively new-build. The work of the...
The top end of Unst, Shetland, has attracted The Press and Journal with its article on one of the more remote and extensive postal rounds in the UK. The 30-mile route of Michelle McCulloch serves...
According to the Halifax Bank of Scotland Quality of Life Survey, Orkney is considered the best place to live in the UK. Richmond in North Yorkshire came second and Rutland third. See the details on...
Were the figure in this image to be walking on Skye some 56 million years ago - a Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, perhaps - then he may have encountered a vast volcanic eruption which had a profound...
Love And Music Will Endure is an historical novel by Liz Macrae Smith based on the life, times and words of Mary MacDonald of Skye (1821 - 1898) who became the acclaimed Gaelic poet and activist,...
This photograph was taken at 04.44 yesterday morning from Rousay, Orkney, by John Vetterlein. His observations about the phenomenon can be read and further images seen here.Scottish Islands Explorer...
The appeal to re-populate the island of Ulva has stirred many people to think about and to show an interest in re-settling there. Read about this phenomenon in yesterday's edition of The Times or...
Here's the Tarbert terminal on Harris without the CalMac ferry in dock. Closure for five or so days is unavoidable and imminent while updated facilities are installed. So the route from Uig, on...
From 1890 until 1915 a 2ft narrow-gauge railway operated along a 2.7-mile track at Lealt, on Skye, in order to take extracted diatomite to a jetty. It has recently come into the news for part of its...
