Isle of Eigg

Faolan said:

Ok I have to do some photography on this island later this year. Does
anyone have any tips or general information that could come in useful.
Trek date is end of May.

Oh and I have been to the official website ;o) What I need is personal
viewpoints...

Thanks!

I was there for a few days last summer, and it's a great little island -
beautiful scenery, friendly locals.
I camped by the bay near Galmisdale - only about 800m from the ferry
pier / shop / public toilets.
It is fairly small island, and you could walk round most of it in a
couple of days, though it's worth staying longer to explore. I was there
for 5 days, but still missed out large areas, but then I was having a
fairly lazy holiday.

I was there because my mum was spending a month on the island doing
voluntary conservation work for SWT. You can see some of her photos at
http://sheila.neogeo.org.uk/gallery/

--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk

sgrìobh Malcolm

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Faolan said:

Ok I have to do some photography on this island later this year.
Does anyone have any tips or general information that could come in
useful. Trek date is end of May.
Oh and I have been to the official website ;o) What I need is
personal viewpoints...
Thanks!

I was there for a few days last summer, and it's a great little island
- beautiful scenery, friendly locals.
I camped by the bay near Galmisdale - only about 800m from the ferry
pier / shop / public toilets.
It is fairly small island, and you could walk round most of it in a
couple of days, though it's worth staying longer to explore. I was
there for 5 days, but still missed out large areas, but then I was
having a fairly lazy holiday.

I was there because my mum was spending a month on the island doing
voluntary conservation work for SWT. You can see some of her photos
at http://sheila.neogeo.org.uk/gallery/

Great pics of a lovely island.

You can tell your mum, if you like, that the very pale yellow flower on
the first page is Mountain Avens, Dryas octopetala, the amazingly hairy
"as yet unidentified caterpillar" is a Garden Tiger Moth and the 6-spot
Burnet Moth is sitting on a Heath Spotted Orchid!

The GTM caterpillar, we as children called hairy jocks, the hens loved
them. Is the Burnet Moth in the picture overlooking Rum Doodle?

What are the unidentified tubers?

--
Lachie.
Chan ann am Bòid uile tha 'n t-olc; tha cuid dheth sa Chumaradh bheag làimh ris.

* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Craig Wallace <[email hidden]_SPAM> descended on
* a shaft of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I camped by the bay near Galmisdale - only about 800m from the ferry
pier / shop / public toilets.

Is that the one with the bathing hut? If so, I've also camped there for a
few days. I collected loads of European Cowries and made them int oa
necklace for my wife.

Jim Ford

In the new manuscript <[email hidden]>, Craig
Wallace penned the following script...

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I was there for a few days last summer, and it's a great little island -
beautiful scenery, friendly locals.
I camped by the bay near Galmisdale - only about 800m from the ferry
pier / shop / public toilets.

I am intending to stay about a week tops, I am also working for the SWT
;o)

Tell your mum lovely set of shots, and thanks for sharing them. As to
the locals most of them have been friendly enough to give me info
regarding minor details. Though one remains: how to charge batteries! I
have been told to contact the store in regards to this.

Thanks again.
--
I see great shots, but the voices worry me...

www.CelticShadows.co.uk

Lachie said:

What are the unidentified tubers?

My guess is that they are common flag iris. They are there in
large quantities and parts of the island are brilliant yellow
with them around easter time.

Chris

sgrìobh Chris Gilbert

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Lachie said:

What are the unidentified tubers?

My guess is that they are common flag iris. They are there in
large quantities and parts of the island are brilliant yellow
with them around easter time.

I have a load of them in the garden, I think they came from Ulva when
they were digging trenches, bright yellow?
Mine are not in the wettest of spots, so I have seen them flower once in
a 5 years.

--
Lachie Macquarie,
O tempora, o mores?

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* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I have a load of them in the garden, I think they came from Ulva when
they were digging trenches, bright yellow?

Ulva's another 'must visit'. I camped there about 3 years back and walked
out to Gometra. It's somewhere I'll visit again.

IIRC it's a stronghold of the Macquaries, isn't it Lachie? There's also a
mauseleum to a Macquarie 'The Founder of Australia' on Mull, maintained by
the National Trust of New South Wales.

Jim Ford

sgrìobh Jim Ford

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* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Lachie <noos@[> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I have a load of them in the garden, I think they came from Ulva when
they were digging trenches, bright yellow?

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Ulva's another 'must visit'. I camped there about 3 years back and walked
out to Gometra. It's somewhere I'll visit again.

It gives me the creeps, goose bumps. After the Napoleonic Wars there
were over 500 living on the island, now there are 30. We are supposedly
from Ormaig on the south side of the island. Staggering views to the
cliffs of Balmeanach and a good chance of seeing the sea eagles and
goldies.

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IIRC it's a stronghold of the Macquaries, isn't it Lachie? There's also a
mauseleum to a Macquarie 'The Founder of Australia' on Mull, maintained by
the National Trust of New South Wales.

http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/lmr/index.html

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Jim Ford

--
Lachie Macquarie,
An t'Airm breac dearg

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* of violets, as Lachie <noos@[> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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Ulva's another 'must visit'. I camped there about 3 years back and walked
out to Gometra. It's somewhere I'll visit again.

It gives me the creeps, goose bumps. After the Napoleonic Wars there
were over 500 living on the island, now there are 30.

The Clearances were particularly vicicous on Ulva - it's full of deserted
settlements. David Livingstone's Grandfather's house was interesting and in
an idylic spot, though with the tough life they had I don't suppose they had
time to appreciate it.

Do you know anything about the cottage that's rented out for visitors on the
track halfway to Gometra, I wouldn't mind staying there myself?

Jim Ford

sgrìobh Jim Ford

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* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Lachie <noos@[> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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Ulva's another 'must visit'. I camped there about 3 years back and walked
out to Gometra. It's somewhere I'll visit again.

It gives me the creeps, goose bumps. After the Napoleonic Wars there
were over 500 living on the island, now there are 30.

The Clearances were particularly vicicous on Ulva - it's full of deserted
settlements. David Livingstone's Grandfather's house was interesting and in
an idylic spot, though with the tough life they had I don't suppose they had
time to appreciate it.

Do you know anything about the cottage that's rented out for visitors on the
track halfway to Gometra, I wouldn't mind staying there myself?

I presume you mean along the roadway? Phone the Munro's, the lad that
works the ferry. They would definitely know.

Http://www.ulva.mull.com/

You can rent Ardalum House. Not cheap.

--
Lachie.
"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away." TW

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* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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Http://www.ulva.mull.com/

Nice, tidy informative site with panoramas that bring back memorys - I might
go back there again this year. I could live on Ulva - but my wife couldn't!

Jim Ford

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Http://www.ulva.mull.com/

Nice, tidy informative site with panoramas that bring back memorys - I might
go back there again this year. I could live on Ulva - but my wife couldn't!

I don't know about living on Ulva - but I wouldn't mind a few
days there to do nothing but relax. And that self catering
accommodation looks simply divine. *Sigh* And expensive, for
a single family with but the one income. Oh well, dream on.
--
If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs...
then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the
situation.

* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Fran <[email hidden]> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I don't know about living on Ulva - but I wouldn't mind a few
days there to do nothing but relax. And that self catering
accommodation looks simply divine. *Sigh* And expensive, for
a single family with but the one income. Oh well, dream on.

Wild camp, or try and find out about renting the cottage on the Gometra
track I passed a few years back. There was a chap outside the cottage
watching a pair of eagles and he told me that he was on holiday and rented
it. An idylic situation.

Jim Ford

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* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as Fran <[email hidden]> descended on a shaft
* of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I don't know about living on Ulva - but I wouldn't mind a few
days there to do nothing but relax. And that self catering
accommodation looks simply divine. *Sigh* And expensive, for
a single family with but the one income. Oh well, dream on.

Wild camp, or try and find out about renting the cottage on the Gometra
track I passed a few years back. There was a chap outside the cottage
watching a pair of eagles and he told me that he was on holiday and rented
it. An idylic situation.

The problem - well, the main problem - with wild camping is my
teenage daughter. She's quite bad enough on a campsite; I
can't somehow see her putting up with a wild camp. And the
problem with renting cottages is that they cost serious
amounts of money bearing in mind that as I said above we only
have the one income between seven of us. Saving up some
pennies might be viable, however - by the time we've saved up
enough said teenage daughter will be old enough to stay home
with her younger siblings while himself and I go off on our
own to find a convenient B&B or somesuch :-)
--
If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs...
then you've failed to grasp some important aspect of the
situation.