Archive for August, 2008

A novel use

A novel use for an old G.P.O. post box in Glen Brittle - it’s a donations box for the Skye Mountain Rescue Team.
It amazing what catches your eyes when you journey through an area again. It’s been a joy to travel around the NW Highlands with a different ’set of eyes on’ and re-discover places […]

The Jamaica Boat

You may see this boat when you’re paddling around on the West Coast of Scotland. It’s registered home port is Kingstown, Jamaica. However it doesn’t commute across the Atlantic Ocean like ‘The Jamaica Bolt’ but is based out of the old oil rig fabrication yard at Kishorn, Applecross.
The MV Harvest Caroline now chugs around fish farms on West […]

Glamour

There’s no mistaking that noise of rain tipping down onto your tent flysheet when your  half asleep and tucked safely in your warm sleeping bag. Thoughts of being get wet, packing away wet kit suddenly flood your mind as does a great relcutance to emerge from your sleeping bag. Yor body and mind so no or […]


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I'm currently writing a sea kayaking guidebook for the Northwest Highlands; Cape Wrath to Ardnamurchan Point including Skye & the Small Isles. This blog will keep you updated as to my progress and hopefully the blog and in turn the book will inspire you experience the Northwest Highlands by sea kayak yourself.

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