#inner hebrides

[vox-anglosphere]

A vintage photo of Portree harbour on the legendary Isle of Skye

#Portree #Isle of Skye #Inverness-shire #vintage photo #c1895 #Inner Hebrides #colourised #fishing boats #Scottish Islands

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Rocky start

An Atlantic grey seal pup on the Isle of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.

Photograph: Stephanie Chadwick

#stephanie chadwick #photographer #atlantic grey seal #seal #mammal #animal #wildlife #inner hebrides #isle of staffa #scotland #nature

[scotianostra]

Malcolm Macleod of Raasay was born on November 15th 1911, he was commonly known as Calum and is most famous for the road he build, mainly on his own on the Island he lived most of his life.

Calum was the son of Donald Macleod of Arnish Raasay and Julia Gillies of Fladda, he was born in Glasgow, his dad was in the Merchant Navy.

Calum and his mother moved to the croft and house adjacent to that of his grandfather, in northern Raasay. Calum had two brothers, Ronald and Charles, and three sisters, one of whom, Bella Dolly (died in the Spanish flu outbreak in 1919)

Calum attended Torran school, with its single teacher, James Mackinnon (Seumas Ruadh). He married Alexandrina (Lexie) Macdonald (1911–2001).

Calum and his brother, Charles, constructed the track from Torran to Fladda on a small isle off Raasay called Eilean Fladda, which is now uninhabited. I took them three years and were paid £35 a year by the local council.

After decades of unsuccessful campaigning by the inhabitants of the north end of Raasay for a road, and several failed grant applications, Calum decided to build the road himself. Purchasing Thomas Aitken's manual Road Making & Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors and Others (London, 1900), for half a crown he started work, replacing the old narrow footpath. Over a period of about ten years (1964–1974), he constructed one and three quarter miles of road between Brochel Castle and Arnish, using little more than a shovel, a pick and a wheelbarrow.

Initial blasting work was carried out and funded, to the sum of £1,900, by the Department of Agriculture's Engineering Department, who supplied a compressor, explosives, driller, blaster, and men.

Several years after its completion, the road was finally adopted and surfaced by the local council. By then, Calum and his wife, Lexie, were the last inhabitants of Arnish. Sadly Calum's Road, and those in general on the island are reported to have been deterioating in the past 20 years or so, which is sad........

#scotland #scottish #history #Roads #Traffic infrastructure #inner hebrides #Human endeavour

[thepictorialist]

Kerrera—Isle of Kerrera as seen from Oban, Scotland, UK 2023

#original #art photography #original photographers #art #travel #art photographer #art photo #hike #landscape #coastal #argyll #inner hebrides #island #green

[shutterandsentence]

Just a girl who loves the ocean...

Photo: Isle of Skye, Scotland

#uk #scotland #isle of skye #ocean #nature #landscape #irish sea #inner hebrides #celtic europe #scottish highlands #highlands #europe #european travel #european vacation #explore #adventure #see the world #world travel #travel #tourism #sea #the great outdoors #god's creation

[sthildaseaadventures-blog]

Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides Scottish Cruise

Pictures from a recent six night 'Mull Odyssey Cruise: Staffa, Iona and the Ross of Mull' onboard our small ship Gemini Explorer.

Many thanks to guest Clive for sharing these pictures.

#st hilda sea adventures #isleofmull #visitscotland #lovescotland #puffins #eagles #inner hebrides #westcoastscotland #westcoastwaters #wildisles #wildlife photography #scottishwildlife #wildlife holidays #hebrides #smallship #smallgroups #travelscotland

[mothmiso]

Isle of Staffa, Scotland (2) by Sarah Throckmorton

#rocky shore #coastal #cloudy #inner hebrides #isle of staffa #scotland

[throughthemeadowflowers]

Looking out the windows of Gylen Castle on Isle Kerrera, Scotland

#Scotland #Kerrera #inner hebrides #castle gylen #scottish isles #castle #naturecore #cottagecore #nature

[scholarofgloom]

#Skye #Inner Hebrides #Scotland #photography #scenic #not mine

[jadeseadragon]

Iona by Samuel John Peploe R.S.A. (Scottish, 1871-1935), no date, oil on board, unframed: 33.5 × 41 cm.; 13¼ × 16¼ inches.

#samuel john peploe #coastal #landscapes #iona #inner hebrides #scotland

[cpahlow]

#Isle of Mull #Inner Hebrides #Scotland

[vox-anglosphere]

Scotland's pristine Isle of Skye is expecting 1,000,000 visitors this year. Conservationists wonder if the island can handle such volume.

#Isle of Skye #Trotternish #Inner Hebrides #The Old Man of Storr #scenic views #Portree #Uig #hiking #natural beauty #tourism #rock formations #nature #conservation #Scottish islands #UK

[jaynejezebelle]

Where have I been all this years? Sittin on the side of a mountain in Scotland, ofc.

But seriously anyone I used to know still active? I yearn for the simpler times of the 2010’s.

#isle of skye #scottish highlands #inner hebrides #old man of storr #goth girl #dark fashion #dark fairycore #fantasy landscape #jaynejezebelle

[scotianostra]

On the 18th January 2009 just a few weeks before the completion of a £4m restoration project, Raasay House was severely damaged by fire.

The history of Raasay and the house here is intermingled with The McLeod Clan, of which my own family were septs to on the Island, and quartermasters to the family. . A clan house, home to the Macleod Chief of Raasay, has stood on or near the present site from as early as the 1500's, but the original clan house was burnt to the ground, torched by government troops after Culloden. Like many families there were MacLeods on both sides that day, the Raasay branch were on the Jacobite side. Perhaps the most famous of the clan in modern times is Calum Macleod, who single handily famously built Calum's Road on the Island over ten years, with little more than a shovel, a pick and a wheelbarrow.

Anyway, back to the house. Since rebuilding started on 1747 the present Raasay House history has been recorded right through to today.

In 1773 Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell made their historic journey to the Western Isles and were guests of the Macleod chief at Raasay House, but by 1843 the last Laird, John Macleod, left the house and emigrated with his family to Australia, the house was old three years later to a George Rainy from London and changed hands again in 1872-4.By 1746 it was in the hands of It was sold to Henry Wood who added the ornate Georgian-style wings and frontage to the house. It changed hands twice more before being converted into a sporting hotel around 1937, very successfully at first, with many wealthy guests. It closed it's doors in 1960.

Another 3 decades passed under different owners and the house was used as an Adventure centre and Outdoor centre, during which little maintenance work was carried out and the building started to deteriorate, it was finally sold to the Raasay House Community Company in 2007. A multi-million-pound project to renovate and refurbish Raasay House commences a year later.

Fire caused damage to all but the west wing in January 2009, just as the house was about to be reopened but thanks to a lottery grant the house rose from the ashes to what it is today, the house retains many of its historical features which were painstakingly restored. Today, still owned by the community it has returned to it's use as a hotel and has a four and a half star rating out of five on Tripadvisor.

As you can see from the pics it is a beatiful building, and the views from the house over to the Isle of Skye are stunning.

#scotland #scottish #history #inner hebrides #fire #historic building

[quordleona03]

The Bard of Mull

Dugald MacPhail was born in 1818 on Mull, and he wrote and spoke both English and Gaelic. He worked as a joiner and as an architect, and he wrote poems in Gaelic. He lived most of his life outside Mull: he died at Partick in 1887, and was buried in a kirkyard nearby.

This is not the kirkyard in Partick. It's Strathcoil in Mull.

He wrote a song An t-sobhrach Mhuileach, "the Mull Primrose", and other poetry in Gaelic about Mull.

This morning as we were driving down the road to Moy Castle, we saw a stone monument and stopped the car to get a closer look.

By 1929, the house in which Dugald MacPhail had been born was falling down. But he was still famous on Mull - if nowhere else - for writing poetry in Gaelic about Mull.

In what seems to have been a spontaneous idea that got turned into a plan and was actually carried out, the stones of the falling-down house in which Dugald MacPhail had been born in 1818, were, in 1929, by a committee of locals, made into a stone monument, and metal plaques fixed to it with lines from his poem An t-Eilean Muileach ("the Isle of Mull").

On the monument he's described as "the Bard of Mull".

There are photographs taken from the news story published at the time in the local paper, of a group of people standing in front of this newly completed monument in 1929. There is a short article about him in the Gazetteer for Scotland.

What's fascinating to me is that he was so well remembered and honoured on the island of his birth, that a whole group of locals - building this monument was not a small task - decided they wanted him memorialised in stone at his birthplace, over thirty years after he died. I'd never heard of him til today. This is the view from his monument.

#Dugald MacPhail #Bard of Mull #Mull #Inner Hebrides #Scotland #photographers of tumblr #An t-Eilean Muileach #An t-sobhrach Mhuileach #Gaelic poets #Scottish Gaelic #Youtube

[sthildaseaadventures-blog]

Autumn Scottish Cruise

Pictures from an 'Isle of Mull and Small Isles Explorer' cruise in September onboard Gemini Explorer. Such a joy to look at while we are amid of spectacular winter storms! Many thanks to guest Naeem for sharing.

#hebrides #st hilda sea adventures #lovescotland #visitscotland #scottishislands #onlyinscotland #innerhebrides #westcoastscotland #scottishwildlife #smallship #wildlifeholiday #dolphins #scottishcruises #explorescotland #travelscotland #solotravel #smallgroups #inner hebrides