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: Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 08:00
Loading planes at North Ronaldsay Airport still involves human labour, but passengers wanting to book inter-island flights have everything at their fingertips. See The Orcadian item on the...
... to another. So a landslide in the remote mainland country between Loch Garry and Kinloch Hourn, to the north of Fort William, leads to damaged cables and a cut in electricity supplies to Skye and...
The Skerryvore Lighthouse was designed by Alan Stevenson to be erected on An Sgeir Mhor, the large skerry, some eleven miles south-west of Tiree. Work started in 1837 and after 58,000 cubic feet of...
A 2000-year-old bowl discovered during the summer at The Cairns archaeological site on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, is an object of beauty that was considered sufficient precious to be repaired many...
Broad Bay is some seven miles to the north of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and Broad Bay House, with six bedrooms and accommodation facilities, is on the market with PrimeLocation.Here, in a stunning...
Two Shetland scenes - Sumburgh Head (above) and Fetlar (below) - indicate that island life can be lonely. The decline in numbers of people on the off-shore islands in the archipelago has recently...
There are times when residents of, say, Papa Stour (above) or on the road to Hope (below) find that delivery services exclude the Highlands & Islands. A new company was set up last Monday to make...
A modern building and a moorland background give Stornoway Airport an attractive look. During October 2018 it saw a record number of passengers using its facilities. The details are reported in the...
It has been estimated that last July's two-day Eilean Dorchas Festival on Benbecula brought in over half-a-million pounds to the local economy. Discover the details at The Press and Journal.Scottish...
Here's one of a fine array - on the BBC Website - of images of the Northern Lights photographed over Shetland during the run-up to 5 November. Scottish Islands Explorer - lights up some readers...
