“Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.” - Judith Viorst A couple of years ago no...

I love how the wind touches, and reshapes the sand. Sometimes, gale forces create deep and rolling dunes. At other times, a breeze just “...

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”  Since memo...

“Calming places” are wonderful for body, mind, and spirit. They are, perhaps, what the ancient Celts called “thin places”, a special sett...

It happened in an explosive instant of time. Just two hours after yesterday’s post of the exquisite rainbow, the remaining ruins of 15th...

Another Hebridean storm has been raging, all day, here on the Isle of Skye. Seems like forever. We went out for a walk after lunch, just ...

With a day of forecast sunshine, we left the Isle of Skye on board the CalMac ferry from Armadale to Mallaig, and drove the short distanc...

It was a lovely drive to the "office" for pastoral duties this morning.  On this day, the Mam Ratagan single track mounta...

The first day of the year couldn't have been a better day to be in a sea kayak, here on the waters off the Isle of Skye...ceiling and...

At this very special time of the year, Joan and I send warm wishes from Scotland’s “Islands and Highlands” to family, friends and acquain...

After paddling, on a calm sea, just 9 kilometres from the little fishing and crofting village of Elgol, we entered a land that time appea...

On a mid-December day, we journeyed deep into the fabled Black Cuillin of the Isle of Skye…by sea kayak. The Cuillin is an alpine range w...

There’s a special “joy” in winter paddling. The ocean is crystal clear, the shoreline feels unexplored, the air is bracing, and there’s t...

Loch Long, at Dornie, was eerily still the entire fifteen kilometre return paddle, with Joan and Kate.  It was a fine way to mark th...