Mountain and Sea Scotland

Further along toward Hopeman, there is an unusual sight on the shore - a pineapple made of wood and stone. A long-dead, bleached pine s...

It's a simple, everyday sort of thing; a pebble beach below a cliff.  The beach is near Hopeman on the Moray Firth , and I've taken...

As a postscript to the our trip, the first banknote I got in change when I got home was this Clydesdale Bank £5 note featuring St Kilda on ...

Cuma passed us as we paddled back to meet her in her home port of Miabhaig.  There's no doubt that without Murdani, Gary and Louise, ou...

The lagoon between Pabaigh Mor and Pabaigh Beag was astonishingly beautiful in the sunshine.  The colours of the water and the sand were a...

Our last day onboard Cuma started with sunny spells.  After breakfast, Gary weighed anchor and Murdani took us out of Loch Reasort and turn...

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Many of the buildings on Scarp are now ruins.  The community, like many in Eilean Siar ( The Western Isles ) gone.  Scarp's story is st...