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Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bag, a deer.

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Kinloch Castle on Rum was built as a shooting lodge. It is full of stuffed things that once flew, ran, crawled or swam. Its shooting books r...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

In search of the monkey eating eagle of Rum.

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The island of Rum is a rum old place. Most people associate it with the sea eagle but there are other eagles to be found on the island. On...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

SY Rhouma

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George Bullough, who built Kinloch Castle on Rum (or Rhum as he called it), also owned the Clyde built, 221 foot, twin deck, sailing yacht ...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Boreray enters digital age but is still isolated.

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My very first post concerned a visit to Boreray . It is a beautiful island in a somewhat exposed position at the west end of the Sound of Ha...
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Monday, January 01, 2007

Sea kayaking pubs: the Old Forge, Inverie

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Sitting in the pub after our abortive Mull of Galloway trip, I reflected on more positive sea kayaking encounters with premises of a licens...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Easdale islander initiative

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The little island of Easdale (which I recently described ) has been cut off from its larger neighbour, the island of Seil for nearly a wee...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Psalm 59 on Scarp

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In a recent post I mentioned the remote island of Scarp off the west coast of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. After the failure of rocket ma...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Wanted: Mink Men!

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Mink on Bhacsaigh, Loch Roag. For the attention of non vegan, unemployed sea kayakers! Scottish Natural Heritage seek persons with the foll...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Canna population grow again?

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The rural idyll of Canna , which is one of the four "Small Isles" in the Inner Hebrides, is about to reverse a population decline....
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Unlocked island doors.

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For centuries the unlocked door has been a feature of the hospitality of remote Highland and Island communities. Perhaps it has grown from a...
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