The Scottish Sealife Sanctuary is an aquarium and seal sanctuary near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. On the shores of the beautiful Loch Creran the aquarium has over 50 displays where you can see everything from rays to otters. In a woodland forest the sanctuary offers talks and feeding demonstrations and includes an opportunity to see resident seals being trained to make it easy for staff to give them health ... Read the Post...
Sango Sands, Durness
Durness is a small village on the North West tip of Scotland and on a bright sunny day my family and I drove the 120 miles from near Inverness to explore the remote and stunningly beautiful area. We arrived as a coach party were piling back onto their bus leaving the award winning Sango Sands beach blissfully quiet.. until I decided to run down the steep path leading to it giving a couple of tourists a fright in the process. (They were worried ... Read the Post...
The Joy of Taste, Inverness
The Joy of Taste at 25 Church Street, Inverness is one of my parents favourite restaurants. The food is something special and my Dad was particularly enamoured with a spherical wobbly whiskey glass he was served his malt in! The Joy of Taste is a bit different from the usual restaurants you find in the highlands. It's a joint venture where all 25 members of staff are volunteers. They each work one shift a week, share in the profits and eat and ... Read the Post...
Craster Harbour
The last day of our last camping trip of the season came around far too quickly and on a sunny Sunday morning we packed up the tent for the last time this year. Determined not to waste the day we took a trip to Craster in the hope of catching some fish off the pier. Craster is a lovely little fishing village famous for herring-curing and the Craster kipper. From the harbour you can see the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle. Owned by English ... Read the Post...