The side of a fishing shed in Mallaig harbour close to the ferry terminal. A classy mural which brightens up an area of grey concrete. I don’t know whether its been done by local or not?
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Karen, Andy and I explored Gairloch one windy day in April last year. On our return to the harbour the MV Hebridean Princess had docked at the main pier. The MV Hebridean Princess is an ex-Caledonian Macbrayne ferry which was converted into a luxury cruise ship and now plys the West Coast of Highlands and Hebrides.
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The Vikings named this sea stack, the Staurr which meant, the stake. Over the passage of time, the name Staurr has become Stoer, and the sea stack is known as the Old Man of Stoer and the surrounding peninsula, the Stoer Peninsula.
Two friends, Karen Darke and Andy Kirkpatrick, recently featured on the BBC Scotland’s Outdoors Show, sea kayaking into the base […]
This was the front page of the BBC website this morning. The first time sea kayaks have appeared on it?
The photo was taken earlier this year whilst I was carrying out some ‘on water research’ for the guidebook with Simon and Liz in Loch Modiart on the Northern side of Ardnamurchan Peninsula.
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