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, June 15, 2019 - 16:42
Solas is the Gaelic word for light and has been appropriately used as the title of a new film about the photographer, Margaret Fay Shaw, who died aged 101 in 2004. She worked with her husband, the...
Climate change tests will be taking place on Orkney to find out whether World Heritage Sites are at risk. Let's hope the sheep may continue to safely graze. Read more through the BBC Website.Scottish...
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The grounds of Lews Castle, Stornoway saw some of the action in the fourth annual Harris Tweed Bike Ride. 45 riders in the local fabric, worn in Victorian styles, took part. Across The Minch, in...
Taking the track above could see you led to the settlement on Gometra, although to become a permanent resident, you would have to be one of those people who likes to complement a remote vicinity with...
Here's the MV Jean Elaine at one of Britain's most remote islets, Sule Stack. Read here about her trip as well as the disaster that occurred there some 51 years ago.Scottish Islands Explorer - takes...
The Times has an item about a proposal that the Scottish islands follow the recent engineering works in the Faroe Islands of linking islands to the mainland by tunnel.Scottish Islands Explorer - ways...
There is something typically Hebridean about these images of Mealista, the deserted township on the extreme south-west coast of Lewis. They, together with an interesting account, appear on the...
The current Your Pictures of Scotland from the BBC has something of a 'sea and shore' theme running through it. Above is an image of the ferry approaching Iona, provided by Fiona Mackinnon. Below is...
The island of Arran has been referred to as 'a place like no other'. This observation is featured on the home-page of a new website launched by the local weekly newspaper, The Arran Banner,...
