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, February 22, 2020 - 09:24
Swona, in the Orkney group, is situated in the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth. It was occupied from around 500 BC until 1974 when its last residents left, leaving behind their cattle which...
Getting to North Rona is not easy - for it's 44 miles out through open seas. However, Seatrek takes visitors from the Isle of Lewis and enables 'visits' with a useful video introduction. One of the...
The Three Chimneys Restaurant - with accommodation - on Skye has been awarded many accolades during the past 34 years. Now Eddie & Shirley Spear have recently sold their establishment. However,...
The Oban and then the Mallaig lifeboats were called out to take paramedics to two cases involving medical distress. One was on Lismore and the other on Eigg (above). A report appears in The Press and...
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...
... Resumed as soon as possible. This must happen on Barra as well as with computer connections that are being experienced.Scottish Islands Explorer - on sale throughout the UK
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...
