Doing a ’shuttle’ is part and parcel of a day’s sea kayaking, normally by pre-placing one of your paddling companion’s car at the end of your journey. However when you are solo paddling, you need other means of getting yourself back to your own car. So today the shuttle consisted of a short 8km bike ride into icy squalls […]
Archive for May, 2007
Plockton or Am Ploc (Gaelic) is a very sheltered village lying on the shores of Loch Carron overlooking the mountains of Applecross. It was a ‘planned’ village hence it’s grid like pattern and similar sized housing stock much like Ullapool to the North.
There are constrasting opinions as to why Sir Hugh Innes the landowner built the […]
The River Polly which has it’s origin on the slopes of Stac Pollaidh, joins the salty waters of the North Minch at Polly Bay. The glacier which carved the magificant and much photographed mountain, dumped this over sized ‘ball’ shaped rock here at the mouth of the River Polly, when it melted after the last ice […]
Fishermen from the Small Isles (Canna, Rum, Eigg & Muck) in common with UK fishermen have always been superstitious in one way or another. The fishermen from the Small Isles had a curious tradition of not referring to their home island when afloat in order that witches or other evil spirits would not know where […]
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