Mountain and Sea Scotland

2025 has started very cold here in Aberdeenshire with steady accumulations of snow and arctic-sourced winds....good conditions for XC skiing...

The first few months of 2024 have seen some really poor weather conditions in Scotland.  In the north-east of the country it was the wettest...

January can, in some years, be a month of enforced abstinence from most outdoor activities.  Limited daylight, often hostile weather and low...

On the second paddling day of our trip in Wester Ross Allan and I launched from the jetty at Laide in Gruinard Bay .  This is a handy launch...

 We paddled along the southern shore of Loch Gairloch (a tautological name which translates as Loch of the Short Loch ) and took a coffee br...

During a winter which had so far been alternately wet or windy, the chance of some sea kayaking in settled weather had Allan and I regularly...

  December 2023 and into January 2024 saw some exceptionally wet weather in the north east of Scotland - Aberdeenshire received three times ...

In late December there was a wonderful display of Nacreous Cloud in the skies over Aberdeenshire.  From before sunrise the ethereal colours...