tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18131486346939918282024-03-13T03:03:56.438-07:00Lochranza Caravan and Camping Site blogKathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14858322711698394655noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813148634693991828.post-27802915006645836862019-07-14T08:46:00.000-07:002019-07-14T08:46:33.998-07:00
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A half an hour ferry journey connects Lochranza with
Claonaig on Kintyre. From Claonaig it is two miles along the scenic shore road
to the remote village of Skipness. In the past, both Lochranza and Skipness
were locations of strategic importance. Both villages had imposing castles which
still dominate their local landscapes today. Both are in the care of Historic
Environment Scotland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skipness’s pretty cottages look across the Kilbrannan
Sound to the mountains of Arran. Using the ferry for a day out on Kintyre, you
can explore <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Skipness Castle</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">St. Brendan’s medieval chapel</b>, with its
carved tomb slabs, bask on the sandy south-facing beach, enjoy eating at the
ever popular <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Skipness Seafood Cabin</b>
(open end of May to end of September, not Saturdays) and visit the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Skipness Smokehouse</b> shop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much more than a century ago, the settlements in the
mountains of West Scotland were more easily connected by seaway than road. Folk
tales of Arran tell of marauding by the inhabitants of Kintyre on Arran’s west
coast, with men carrying off women and sometimes Arran women carrying off men.
In the book<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> ‘Skipness, Memories of a
Highland Estate’ </b>by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Angus Graham</b>,
who was writing about his childhood in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, local
folklore is remembered. One story tells of the surprise of Skipness villagers
when a baby fell out of the sky into the fields, apparently dropped by an eagle
which had snatched it up on Arran. Remarkably, the baby was fine and the
villagers took it back to its parents on Arran by boat. Another tale is of a
stag swimming from Lochranza to Skipness. I can believe this because once I saw
a stag swimming north off Newton Point. I thought it was a floating tree. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another of Angus’s tales tells how a woman arrived in
Skipness from Lochranza carrying a bundle of cloth. Inside was a baby,
apparently conceived on a jaunt over to Arran by a Skipness man. As he was used
to bringing up orphan lambs, he made a good Dad and the baby thrived. The baby
became Mrs. Higginson, who recorded Kintyre folklore. My favourite of her tales
involves the gruagach of Skipness Castle- a small green figure with a great
head of wild hair. This gruagach would appear and disappear at will and would
help a widow, Mrs. Barton, to clean the castle after dark. She liked to kneel
at Mrs. Barton’s lap to have her unruly hair brushed. However, one night she
found a man asleep in Mrs. Barton’s bed and he had made it very untidy so she
thrashed him almost to death. Who knows what costly mistakes you could make in
castles after dusk?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">The
Book of Arran Two</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W.M.
Mackenzie</b> tells of a different strange creature: the Meileachan or The Bleaters.
Like the Gruagach, a Bleater could be helpful in tidying up the household at
night. However, a Bleater could also be peevish and easily insulted (I’m like
that if I do too much housework!) You have to throw a cloak over a Bleater to
get rid of it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Book of Arran Two gives you insights to the past you
would never imagine. It tells how, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the lawless times of early 17<sup>th</sup>
century Arran, there was much ‘theft, slaughter, murder, mutilation,
witchcraft, and sorning.’ Sorning? I was curious to know what sort of terrible crime
sorning was. I learned that it is ‘imposing oneself as a guest without
invitation for an indefinite period’. I know that guests who outstay their
welcome can be annoying, but they must have really gone a step too far to be on
a par with murder and mutilation!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a less dramatic, but still on a magical and enchanting
note, this year at Brodick Castle you can discover a Fairy Trail of tiny and
enchanting fairy houses. You are most likely to find them if you have a small
child with you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">If, like me, you like old tales, old books and folklore,
contact<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Johnston’s Arran Bookroom in
Lamlash: </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">heather@johnstonsarranbookroom.co.uk</span></b></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">We first noticed the small (5m x 3m) Basecamp caravan
appearing on the campsite last year. Whilst we love tent camping - the
simplicity of it and the sense of being at one with nature- inclement weather
can bring a camping trip to a premature end. It was the description of the
Basecamp as a ‘camping crossover vehicle’ which roused our interest and tempted
us with the thought that it could enable us to survive bad weather for longer. But
would we lose the simplicity of life in a tent?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Our two night trial trip was to the friendly and well
managed Machrihanish Holiday Park on nearby Kintyre, travelling via the
Lochranza-Claonaig ferry. Our first impression of our new van was that it is
something of a Tardis. Perhaps it’s the panoramic front window that makes the indoor
space embrace the outdoors. Two comfortable benches fold away easily to
accommodate large outdoor gear items when on the move. At night the benches
convert into a wide double bed. I was taken with the practical design of the storage
baskets that lift out for packing and slide in for the journey. The LED
lighting was economical and the solar panel meant we didn’t need a hook-up. The
Basecamp also comes with a sizeable and sturdy Vango awning which will be
useful for longer trips with more outdoor gear - and if we’re hankering after
tent camping we can always sleep in it! After two days, we were impressed with
the caravan’s combination of sophisticated technology, simplicity and ease of
management. We can’t wait for our next trip!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">At this time of year the Kintyre peninsula’s verges are a
carnival of wildflowers: bluebells, thrift, bird’s foot trefoil and wild
garlic. Peaceful, lush pastures are grazed by Friesian and Ayrshire dairy
cattle, Atlantic rollers unfurl onto long sandy beaches and sea birds on
missions pause before launching off to Northern Ireland or Ailsa Craig. We walked
up to the Mull of Kintyre at sunset (414m) and surveyed the gilt sea lapping
the lands of the ancient kingdom of Dalriada. The following day we walked at
low tide on the causeway to Davaar Island from Campbeltown where paintings can
be found in a sea-hollowed cave. There is a three hour window at each side of
low tide for a safe crossing.</span></div>
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stretch of Arran’s Coastal Way takes you along a rugged coastline rich in
geology and history and with ever-changing views up and across the Clyde to the
Isle of Bute, the tiny island of Inchmarnock, Cowal and Kintyre. On days when
the Clyde is like a wide skein of sky blue silk, you may see porpoises, basking
sharks and even minke whales cruising purposefully along this special
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Catch a bus from Lochranza to the lay-by opposite the
road down to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">North Sannox Pony
Trekking Centre</b>. Walk down the road past the pony trekking centre, to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">North Sannox picnic area,</b> site of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lag nan Sasunnach</b> (Grave of the Stranger).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Above you are the slopes of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Torr Reamhar, </b>once an Iron Age hill
fort. Current thinking is that these forts (which can be found right round
Arran’s coast) were designed to be impressive spectacles rather than homes, the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Take the trail northwards from the car park. As you walk
you are treading on raised beach: in West Scotland the land is still rising in
a rebound from the crushing weight of the glaciers of the last Ice Age. You
will notice tall white navigation beacons as you walk, which represent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">measured miles</b>. Ships built on
Clydeside used to trial their top speeds using these markers. A couple of miles
into your walk you pass through the landfall known as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fallen Rocks. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">At grid reference 998488 look up to your left (before the
measured mile marker) to see a diagonal path heading uphill into a hidden
hollow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At this point you can deviate
from your route to the ruins of the communal farm of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Laggantuin</b> and get a sense of how the people of Arran lived in past
centuries. Their longhouses <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>had rough
stone walls and low roofs made of heather thatch. Each living room had a
central hearth with farm animals kept in the byre at the far end of the
building. More than fifteen families and a hundred people lived in this way on
this coastline up to the end of the 18<sup>th</sup> century. One of these folk
was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malcolm MacMillan</b> who was
grandfather to Daniel MacMillan, who set up the publishing house, and
great-great- grandfather to Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister. The people of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">North Sannox</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Laggantuin</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cock Farm</b>
were to make up the largest group of emigrants to Canada from the island during
the period in Scotland known as the Clearances. Look out for the traces of
their lives in the ridges of the runrig farming system, the ruined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Arran" title="Isle of Arran"><span style="color: windowtext; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">workings of a
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flat, grassy and easy-going. At Milestone Point you cross the Highland Boundary
geological fault which divides Highland and Lowland Scotland. Laggan Cottage makes
an excellent stopping-point for enjoying your sandwiches and the views. At this
point, an alternative path heads inland up and over the hills to the south end
of Lochranza. Continuing beside the sea, you are walking in the footsteps of the
giant millipede <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arthropleura</b> which
tramped this way on his many legs 300 million years ago. His fossilised trail
remains. (Find out more at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arran
Heritage Museum Geology section</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lochranza Geology Centre</b>.) As you continue you are stepping on
different sections of geological time. Notice the changing textures and colours
of the rocks dipping and tumbling into the sea. New geological discoveries are regularly
being made along this intriguing coastline. </span></div>
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explore its dank and dark interior! The entrance is a narrow slit above a low
ledge and in summer it can be hidden by leaves and bracken. If you scramble inside,
crouch down to find interesting markings on the walls which include a sailing
ship- perhaps drawn by an islander of two centuries ago, waiting apprehensively
to leave everything familiar and cross the Atlantic for Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Curving round the coast from the point known as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cock of Arran</b>, a scrambling challenge
awaits you at another section of fallen rocks: <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the chaotic conglomeration of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An
Scriodan</b>. Choose your footing carefully as you cross it; everything after
will feel like easy walking.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fairy Dell Cottage</b> you have the option
to head up and over the hill past <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the
Whins</b> (crafts and icecreams) or continue round the coast, passing the famous,
but not particularly obvious, geological feature known as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hutton’s Unconformity</b> (</span><a href="http://lochranzacaravanandcamping.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">http://lochranzacaravanandcamping.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"> July
2018).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">When you reach <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Newton
Point</b> the tantalising view of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lochranza
Hotel</b> and the Boguille Bar lies ahead of you. Unfortunately, there is no
quick way across the waters of the bay and you have no option but to walk round
the head of the loch on the Newton Road. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of course, the extra distance will make your
beer taste all the better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">It’s one of
those days with a low grey sky mingled with a misty sea, when Kintyre is a smudgy
outline between them, which does not immediately beckon me out of doors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">It’s been a
rainy week or two resulting in waterfalls bursting and spurting out of
Lochranza’s hillsides. I pull on my wellies and head out to enjoy them. The
first thing I notice is birdsong rippling through the air in cascading notes,
rich, flutey whistles, irrepressible twitterings, repetitions and clear,
commanding refrains. Underlying the tunes is the harmonious bass roar of
rushing rivulets spilling down stones, down through the glen, down into
saltwater at the head of the loch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">I walk up the
track to Narachan, looking down on cottage roofs and looking up into the cleft
of Gleann Easan Biorach where dark cloud is gathered. Even so, there are signs
of spring everywhere on this first day of spring: butter-coloured celandine and
glistening clumps of frog spawn in the wet pasture. Raindrops tremble on mossy
branches. Opening buds colour the bare twigs of their trees: alder branches are
crimson, the hawthorn branches fresh green and the sycamore buds are pale
delicate shells cracking apart to reveal new life and leaves. </span></div>
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Walks on Arran</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">All over
Arran there are waterfalls because the island is a steeply mountainous place
attracting high levels of rainfall. The most well-known of Arran’s waterfalls
is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glenashdale Falls</b> which you reach
from the south end of Whiting Bay (GR 0472530). These falls are a high, narrow
spout plunging dizzily down through lush woodland. I understand that the direct
path is closed for forest operations at the present time but the Falls can still
be reached from the route by the ancient cairns known as the Giants’ Graves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">At
the south end of the island, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eas Mor
Falls</b> above Kildonan, splash and froth over rocky sills. A circular walk
from the car park (GR 019217) takes you on a well-made path by tree-lined pools
to viewpoints where the loveliness of the waterfalls is suddenly revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Nearer
Lochranza, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">North Sannox Burn</b> (GR
994468) thunders in spate down from mountain-rimmed Coire nan Ceum all the way
to the sea. A good path with viewpoints has been made by Arran Access Trust.</span></div>
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wet weather, every glen, ravine and cliff has its own waterfall. As always in
the mountains, it makes sense to wear boots with good grippy soles if you
venture into steep, wet terrain. Using a walking pole can also help prevent a
slip.</span></div>
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Lochranza Campsite.</span></div>
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Joys of Tents, the Pleasures of Pods</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nigel and I like to think of ourselves as camping purists.
Certainly, I never sleep better than when I’m lying on my Thermarest in my small
Vango tent, drifting into dreamland whilst vaguely conscious of small creatures
rustling inches from my face in the grass outside. Sometimes I’ve even had
encounters with creatures attempting to get inside my tent, including hedgehogs,
a fox, farm dogs, and, like many other visitors to Lochranza, stags. As campers
who refuse to admit defeat whatever the weather, it’s important to us, if not
to other, more sensible people, to occupy the last tent standing in a storm. I
love the symphony that is a wet night in a tent, with wind and rain flapping
the flysheet, drumming raindrops and rattling poles. I love sitting on the
grass in sunshine, waiting a good quarter of an hour for the water in the Trangia
stove (bought 1977) to boil. Camping fills up our senses, but does a camping
pod?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I first noticed camping pods in Eskdale in the Lake
District more than thirty years ago. I didn’t know what they were and guessed
they were pigsties (albeit very attractive ones). From modest beginnings, camping
pods and glamping pods have become a travel success story. However, we must not
confuse the two: a camping pod is to a glamping pod as a canoe is to a luxury
yacht. If you’re a camping purist like us, you seek neither luxury nor glamour
on your holiday. Whether you’re camping or glamping though, you normally still
have to go outside to the loo. This may give you a privileged view of a
star-spangled night sky, or, on a rainy night, it may mean damp pyjamas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first time we stayed in a camping pod I was surprised
how much I enjoyed it: it was as simple, basic and cosy as a tent and I still
got to hear the rain at night pattering on the roof, lulling me to sleep. It
also had the advantage that I didn’t have to wear three fleeces, a woolly hat
and my walking socks in bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are some other advantages of camping pods over tents:</span></div>
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in season</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Curtains to help you sleep on light midsummer
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Less to pack and less to carry meaning that you
might even not need to bring your car over on the ferry. Also, there is less to
clean and dry when you get home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At Lochranza Campsite we have four camping pods: Alder,
Birch, Hazel and Rowan, named after trees that grow around Lochranza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can find a description of each pod and
book online by following this link: </span><a href="http://www.arran-campsite.com/index.php/camping-pods"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.arran-campsite.com/index.php/camping-pods</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. The
pods are situated on the southern edge of the campsite with the burn,
Chalmadale Waters, winding behind them. Each pod’s back window frames the
magnificent crags of Torr Nead an Eoin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is a camping pod camping? I would say so, except for the
backpacking aspect. Arguably, pods offer the best of camping and none of the
hardships.</span></div>
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<pre style="line-height: 18.65pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy New Year! <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">B</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="GD" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: GD; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">liadhna Mhath Ùr</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">!</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></pre>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today (11<sup>th</sup> January) is New Year’s Eve in the
Old Scottish calendar. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">B</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="GD" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: GD; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">liadhna Mhath Ùr</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="GD" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Happy New Year in Gaelic). </span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Already, the days are noticeably a little
lighter and the patches of the campsite touched by sunshine are a little
larger. The darkest days of the year have past, but is winter still to come?</span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lochranza takes its name from the bay around
which its white cottages and villas straggle. The bay, an inlet of the sea, has
been a useful anchorage for boats throughout centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name Lochranza derives from the Gaelic
and Norse meaning ‘loch of the rowan tree river’. The rowan tree or mountain
ash can cope with high altitudes and harsh climates, and ancient folk wisdom
regards it as giving protection to a place from enchantments. </span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #212121; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I realise that being protected from
enchantment is not necessarily one of your essential holiday requirements. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However,
if you are looking for the beauty of Scottish mountains, lochs and sea and lots
of wildlife you will enjoy Lochranza. Our online booking opens on February 1<sup>st</sup>.
We strongly advise early booking especially for the last week in May, and the
whole of July and August. If you have visited us before, you’ll find plenty of
old faces to welcome you back and some new ones as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you like to plan your holiday to coincide with Arran’s
festivals 2019 here are dates for the mountain festival and the folk music
festival:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arran Mountain Festival 17<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup>
May <a href="http://www.arranmountainfestival.co.uk/">www.arranmountainfestival.co.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arran Folk Music Festival 7<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup>
June <a href="http://www.arranevents.com/">www.arranevents.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll keep you posted about the other festivals as I hear
about them. Do watch this space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wishing you good health and enchanting travelling in
2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathy and Nigel, and Lochranza Campsite Staff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">History has come full
circle at Lochranza Golf Course this year with the return of Pablo Moran to his
green-keeping beginnings. Pablo first came to the village from Peru in 1963
aged 17 when he was unable to speak English. He remembers how he cried for a
month with homesickness. Thankfully for golf on the island it did not get the better
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At that time the
village had long had a golf course on land situated in the head of the glen, owned
by the Arran Estate. The first recorded golf course at Lochranza was opened on
the 6<sup>th</sup> June 1899 – an era that would come to be regarded as the heyday
of Arran golf due to burgeoning tourism around the Clyde. Many of Arran’s golf
courses originated at this time: between 1903 and 1914 there were 11 golf
courses on the island. The SWRI’s book ‘History of the Villages of the Isle of
Arran’ reports that ‘the people (of Lochranza) opened a golf course, a new club
house and new bridges over the burn for the benefit of golfers’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The original golf
course at Lochranza had 12 holes. The father and grandfather of Mr. Iain
Robertson, dedicated golfer and owner of the golf course from 1988 to 2009, played
this original layout on annual summer holidays. The course layout at that time
did not include the Butt Field or the Sea Field. Instead, it stretched up the
steep hillside to the south-east towards Narachan. An old tee from that time
remains in the bracken below Broombank road end and is visible in the winter
months. That tee played downhill to a green to the west of the big sycamore
tree stump which would later become part of the campsite. Mr Robertson thinks
it possible that the golf course at that time also extended upstream towards
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During the Second
World War the golf course was used for commando training. Traces of hut circles
on the 1<sup>st</sup> and 9<sup>th</sup> fairways can still be discerned as
well as a raised bank which may have been a rifle range. The Stags Pavilion
became a base for the commandos. After the war, a 9 hole layout, completely
different to today’s, was created. The area of the course included the
present-day campsite field and the field that now contains the pond. Mr.
Robertson remembers that a farmer from Catacol, whose sheep sometimes strayed
to Lochranza, used to mow the fairways with the gang mowers on his tractor. The
tees from this post-war 9 hole layout, now disused, remain around the golf
course. When Mrs Ruby McAllister took over the golf course and campsite in 1963
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The eighties saw a
resurgence of the popularity of golf due to televised major competitions. When
Mr.Robertson bought the golf course and campsite in 1988 he planned an
ambitious new 18 hole layout. He negotiated with Mr. Charles Fforde, the
landowner, and Mr.Sandy Sloss, the farmer, to acquire the Butt Field and Sea
Field areas with the provision that the sheep could have sheltered grazing
through the lambing period in April. This system remains in place today. The
18 hole layout designed by Mr. Robertson and his father included double tees
and greens and a number of other new features, including the pond on the 7<sup>th</sup>
hole, other water hazards and long doglegs. The 18 hole layout at par 70
presented the longest course on the island. The layout was designed to
maximise appreciation of the beautiful scenic views as golfers walked the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nigel and myself took
over the golf course and campsite lease in 2009. A meeting of members in 2010
in the Stags Pavilion, led to a vote in favour of returning the course to a 9
hole layout and with their help we set about the changes in 2011. Essentially,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now back in Pablo’s
care, 55 years on from when he first set foot on Lochranza’s fairways, the
course, framed by the majestic hills, continues to be enjoyed by stalwart local
supporters and visitors alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">THE<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>BOGUILLE (GR.973484)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">‘Everyone spoke about going over the Boguille.’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Place-Names of Arran</i> by Ian A.
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road between Glen Chalmadale and North Sannox. It is derived from ‘boglach’
which means marshy ground. (The ‘bo’ part rhymes with Joe and the ‘guille’ part
rhymes with Billy.) Chalmadale comes from Old Norse, the tongue of the Vikings,
and means Hjalmund’s Dale. Hjalmund must have decided that this deep glen,
sheltered from the north wind, was a desirable place to settle- and who
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">One afternoon recently I got dropped off at the top of
the Boguille (204m). This is the watershed where burns begin flowing in
opposite directions. I turned my back on the always- arresting view of the
Sleeping Warrior (the ridge between Suidhe Fheargas and Caisteal Abhail), in
order to walk the old way into Lochranza which descends on the opposite side of
the burn from the road. It is clearly marked on the Ordnance Survey Explorer
map but not always easy to detect on the tussocky high ground. As I tripped and
stumbled through the long, spiky deer grass, I was rewarded by the fluttering
of many vivid vermilion and deep brown Scotch Argus butterflies ahead of me.</span></div>
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these haunts of the red deer herds, I descended gently. The path is crossed at
intervals by rills and rivulets which splash down to the burn, Chalmadale
Waters. Arran is a mountainous island and (normally) a wet island, so its
tumbling burns and waterfalls are plentiful and are wee microcosms of
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in the form of rock slabs. Around the sheep-nibbled grass yellow tormentil
flowers twinkled starrily and filmy pale blue harebells nodded. Meadow pipits
flitted through the whins and stonechats chattered (as they do!) It is a bonny
route, away from road traffic, with the view down to Glen Farm lying ahead.
Once at the bottom of the track you come to farm buildings and a ford from
where the path rises again past Glen Farm and traverses the hillside to
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Where IS
Hutton’s Unconformity? A question we are often asked and one that is not easy
to answer because, to the untrained eye, the rocks which comprise the unconformity
don’t appear to be much different to the rest of the gnarled, grey, sea-bitten
rocks that edge Arran’s northern coastline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The issue of
whether Hutton’s should be marked by a sign has been the subject of much discussion.
Many think a sign would look intrusive in such a natural landscape. Many others
believe that some kind of interpretation is vital if visitors are to fully appreciate
the significance of the site. In fact, James Hutton himself is the remarkable
ingredient in the story. In 1787, a time when Christendom believed the world
was created in 4004 BC, Hutton, a lively and inquisitive man, farmer and
soil-improver, came to Arran, looked at the formation of the rocks and
recognised that the Earth must be much older than prevailing wisdom asserted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hutton
applied modern scientific methods and reasoning to comprehension of the Earth’s
history. Walking along the coast towards the Cock of Arran, he observed that
younger sedimentary layers of sandstone lay above older Dalradian schists: this
is the unconformity. He deduced that titanic processes of erosion and
sedimentation, of uplift and great heat, must have created the world over long
periods of time. His discovery made him come to be regarded as the father of
modern geology although initially he faced outrage and accusations of blasphemy
from some members of the church.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How to Find the Unconformity</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From Newton
Point (GR 931515) follow the Coastal Way. At first the path crosses grass then
rocky ground. It’s about 1km to Hutton’s Unconformity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Look up to
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hillside. Hutton’s Unconformity is in line with this, in the rocks by the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Eventually
you come to a stone slab bridging a ditch (GR 936521). Stop here, don’t take
the right turn of the path inland. Hutton’s Unconformity is on the sea side of
the stone slab bridge. Look out for the two types of rock lying adjacent to
each other, despite belonging to different geological ages. Notice how they
slope at different angles.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A fun, educational way to learn about
the local geology is to visit Lochranza Centre and do their geocaching trail (</span></i><a href="http://www.lochranzacentre.co.uk/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">www.lochranzacentre.co.uk</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">).
I also recommend purchasing ‘Arran: Landscapes in Stone’ by Alan McKirdy, £7.99
from the Book and Card Shop in Brodick.‘The Arran Naturalist’, commemorative
edition, £3.00, is also of interest if geology captures your imagination. It
contains an excellent article about Arthropleura, a 2m long millipede, whose
footprints from 300 million years ago remain clearly visible on rocks near
Laggan. We sell this booklet in reception. You can also find out more about
Arran geology at Arran Heritage Museum, Brodick</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Round Arran On
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Friday 8<sup>th</sup>
June 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On almost any
day of the year there is sure to be someone circumnavigating Arran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may be walking the Coastal Way, negotiating
the road’s ups-and-downs by bike, car or bus, or perhaps paddling a kayak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One bright morning recently we decided to see
how long it would take to circumnavigate the island on Cloud Nine, a 6.3 metre
RiB, anti-clockwise and sticking to a steady 18 knots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We leave Lochranza
pontoon on a high tide having enjoyed breakfast at the Sandwich Station.
Pulling out into the choppy waves and invigorating breeze of the Kilbrannan Sound
we turn south-west, passing Catacol’s white cottages tucked like toy houses under
the bulky rounded hills of the north-west of the island. If we see any floating
plastic, we lean over the side and pick it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From a sea
level point-of-view you can truly appreciate what a mountainous island Arran
is, with its settlements squeezed onto narrow shelves of flat land. You also
realise how there is a great deal of impenetrable terrain on the island, with
steep rocky wooded cliffs tumbling into the sea, so steep in fact that it makes
you wonder however anyone ever imagined a road round the edge might be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>possible. You also realise that this is an
entirely lovely island and scenic from whichever degree you look at it from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You would not
choose a RiB ride for comfort- it can be jarring and you are exposed to the
weather-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but RiBs are strong and stable
on the water. It is best, even on a hot day, to wear warm protective gear
because hypothermia sneaks up on you unawares. A hat or cap and sunglasses are
essential. In colder weather we wear immersion suits.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoo0oKDogyx75s0A0mH6YTGBs_qf12fh2zX2AO_YJb-E4CMg61OHjbEvLdYxhbtVtdGttiGXnWc4hnap7sEA9lLKEhmYeiCSjLT3xo3Cxpnp1yqkHnZBNfymzSc0ebh8DbkZvKMdoGKHRF/s1600/100_3510.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="868" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoo0oKDogyx75s0A0mH6YTGBs_qf12fh2zX2AO_YJb-E4CMg61OHjbEvLdYxhbtVtdGttiGXnWc4hnap7sEA9lLKEhmYeiCSjLT3xo3Cxpnp1yqkHnZBNfymzSc0ebh8DbkZvKMdoGKHRF/s320/100_3510.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On the RiB
dashboard is a chart plotter with down-view depth sonar. The graphs on the
screen enable the driver to see the shape and depth of the seabed. Round the
coast the seabed is treacherously uneven with underwater volcanic dykes jutting
out from the land a particular hazard. We look out for marker buoys and
cardinal markers which are placed to guide shipping. When you go right up to
them you find they have intriguing names such as Iron Rock Ledges. We also look
out for lobster buoys so that their ropes do not get tangled in our propeller. We
let Belfast Coastguard know about our voyages and can communicate with them by
radio if necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Reaching the
point where the Kilbrannan Sound opens out into the North Channel the sun is
rising higher and sunlight flashes off the waves. The new distillery stands
high on the island’s south-west corner . Northern Ireland is a misty line on
the horizon, the surprising pyramid of Ailsa Craig ahead. Whenever I see this
giant rock, it is always rising eerily out of the mist. The gannets are diving.</span></div>
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we are in the Firth of Clyde – one of the most famous maritime routes in the
world. It’s flat calm on this side of the island, the sea more like a lagoon,
and it’s much easier to see wildlife. Approaching the last lap of the Sannox-
Lochranza coast, the mountains of Glen Sannox look like one of Tolkein’s
mythical landscapes. And right at that moment we hear the puff and hiss of
vigorous blowing through air holes and see five big broad black gleaming backs
gliding purposefully north through the water, their fins thin and upright like sea-tattered
masts. We turn off the engine and keep our distance. We don’t know what these
creatures are but think they could be minke whales. Cloud nine indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Long, cold winters can have a silver lining: ice and
frost delay the growth of bracken giving wildflowers a longer window of
opportunity to bloom in spring. Some of these plants have shared the earth’s
history for a very long time. Did you know that the common horsetail grass
existed 400 million years ago? I know it now from joining in the Arran Natural
History Society’s Wildflower Identification Walk with enthusiastic and very
knowledgeable guide Sarah Cowan in lovely Glen Rosa. Sarah began the walk by
informing us that she had identified more than three hundred species of plant
just in our immediate vicinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah’s sharp eyes picked out many wee species
flourishing quietly in hidden places. In the past, most of our ancestors would
have known the names and properties of a wide array of plants because they had
uses. Sarah informed us how bracken was actually encouraged in order to make
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skin to be a midge repellent and fragrant valerian was used as an aid to sleep.
Bog myrtle still makes a delicious but highly intoxicating beer whilst ling
heather can be a great pan scrubber. Distinguishing your heathers can help you
keep your feet dry on a hill walk because bright bell heather’s roots form a
mat which stops you sinking into bog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is always surprising to learn how much the wild
landscapes of Britain and their ecology have been influenced by human beings.
Sarah told us that the widespread hawthorn was, surprisingly, not native to
Arran but introduced at the time of the 18<sup>th</sup> century enclosures as a
means to demarcate land. Brambles and rosehips are likely to be found growing
where cottage gardens used to be, as well as hazel for building. Nettles nearly
always flag up a place where humans have been active in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To appreciate the beauty and variety of wildflowers you
have to look closely and attentively. Apparently, in the Gaelic some grass
names are described as grey and blue, not green as you might expect. On looking
closer, we agreed that some of the grass stems had a grey-blue sheen, begging
the question does language respond to what we perceive or is what we perceive
determined by language?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As our short walk neared its end we all came to a
standstill at the sight of a flowering creamy Scottish burnet rose spreading
over the banks of the burn. Sarah said it had not flowered since 1994 and must
have benefited from the cold winter and warm, dry spring. Nearby, deep blue
milkwort, bright pink lousewort and sky-blue germander speedwell were bright
splashes in the grass attracting the pollinators as well as the insect-eating
butterwort and delicate heath spotted orchids. All this natural treasure on a
slow stroll of a few hundred metres!</span></div>
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winter, this magnificent May! It’s as we’d been living in a black-and-white
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bright green
bracken stalks are shooting up from last year’s faded fronds. Deep yellow whins
blossom (with their divine coconut fragrance), frothy white hawthorn blossom
and the exotic purple flowers of the rhododendron ponticum adorn Lochranza’s
hillsides. The lush leaves of sycamores hum with bees gathering nectar. Even
the ash, always last, has come into leaf. In shady rocky clefts there are still
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sunshine makes climbing high a temptation. From Lochranza’s hills our eyes are
drawn to the rounded Paps of Jura, up Loch Fyne to splashes of white which are
yachts coming out of Portavadie Marina, and across to the Clyde. There are a
lot of daylight hours to play with this month and very little real darkness. It
is the season and weather for wonderful sunsets behind the ancient silhouette
of Lochranza Castle. Nothing is lovelier than being in a Canadian canoe on the
loch on nights like these. Using the silent stroke to glide along, we don’t
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of birdsong from dawn as birds flirt with prospective mates. The cuckoo’s
plaintive two notes calling from behind the Distillery punctuate the day.
Adders slither in the undergrowth of Gleann Easan Biorach. They glare boldly at
us and add a warning hiss to respect their space. The red deer are casting
their shaggy worn-out winter coats and regaining strength on the juicy grass.
Badgers meanwhile are focussing on the housework, tossing out the old straw and
sheep’s wool that kept their setts warm all winter. Last week we passed seals
basking on the rocks in the bay as usual but unusually one took off, leaping
and arching in and out of the water like a dolphin. It looked like a seal but behaved
like a small dolphin. Can seals leap clear of the water is the question we are
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loveliness there is inevitably a downside: the midgies made their presence
known on the 23<sup>rd</sup> and are currently drifting around in a half awake
state. The breeding females have not started biting yet. Without these wee
creatures we wouldn’t have the swallows that raise two or three broods a year
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all this change and activity Lochranza’s rocks seem unchanging but then again,
of course they are changing- the whole relevance of Hutton’s Unconformity near
Fairy Dell is that the location made James Hutton realise that landscapes are
in a process of continuous change and that everything in the natural world is more
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
nearest food store to Lochranza is seven miles west in the village of Pirnmill,
but that does not mean that you have to live on tins of beans for the duration
of your camping holiday. Read on to find out all about the delicious, local,
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island, is open during the day six days a week, and from 12- 4pm on Sundays. It
is on the bus route and sells just about everything you might need on holiday
including daily newspapers, magazines, ice-creams, fresh milk and cheese, a
good range of fresh vegetables and fruit (do ask –they’re kept cool in a back
room and not on display), a post office, greetings cards, second-hand books,
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an<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Asda</b> near the ferry
terminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On reaching Brodick, there is a
newly-refurbished <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Co-operative</b> Store
on the sea front (01770 302515), open till late. If you are sailing to Arran
from the north, via Claonaig on Kintyre, Tarbert will be your last stop for
provisions. There is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Co-operative</b>
store in the town, as well as a greengrocer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have time before your ferry, visit the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Skipness Smokehouse </b>at Skipness for
delicious seafood (01880 760378). The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Seafood Cabin </b>at Skipness (01880 760207) is open from the end of May until
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The award-winning <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arran
Butcher</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>860354 does deliveries round
the island from a base at Blackwaterfoot. The van now visits the campsite on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thursday</b> mornings, usually between
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free range eggs and island reared rare breed pork, is currently trialling
deliveries round the North End. Look out for their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Real Food</b> van visiting the campsite on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Friday</b> mornings around 9.30 to 10.00 am. The business is a not-for-profit
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arran
Distillery</b>, just across the road from the campsite, sells much more than
whisky, including Arran cheese, Arran icecream, Arran chocolate and Wooley’s
Arran Oatcakes.</span></div>
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Station</b> (closed Mondays 07810 796248), by the pier, makes exquisite
sandwiches using local produce and sourdough bread from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackwaterfoot Bakery.</b> The sandwiches
are large and all you need for a healthy, tasty and filling lunch. </span></div>
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at the Arran Distillery- lunches and coffees daily</span></div>
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Pavilion</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> fabulous restaurant by the campsite. Booking essential
(01770 830600)</span></div>
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can get an appetising range of meals and snacks on The Caledonian Isles ferry
which sails between Ardrossan and Brodick. Nigel never misses a Calmac Full
Scottish breakfast when we are travelling. My personal favourites are the
Calmac Cullen Skink fish pie and the Calmac macaroni cheese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See March 24<sup>th</sup> 2018 Scotland: Mull of Kintyre</span></div>
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East Wind</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The UK was united in snow and ice last week.<span style="color: #001504; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Just when spring was tiptoeing our way, the unseasonal
deep cold has seemed cruel. Every time I looked out of our window through
whirling dry snow there seemed to be wild birds, red squirrels and red deer
engaged in a desperate search for something to eat. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arran was largely snow-free last week but many of the burns
froze over and so did the edge of the sea in places. The North End’s mossy
cliffs looked like curtains of icy daggers. Nothing seemed to stop the
penetrating east wind making its way indoors through every crack and cranny and
rattling the roof and walls. We wrapped our water pipes up in duvets and got up
regularly throughout the night to turn taps on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking up the Narachan track, normally sheltered, was
not at all sheltered from the wind and I kept feeling I had company as every so
often I would receive a powerful push in the back sending me stumbling forwards.
Strangely, I passed a frosted adder on the track. I thought it might be dead
but its bright eyes were watching me intently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Of a’ <span style="color: #001504; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">the airts the wind can
blaw/ I dearly like the west,’ said Rabbie Burns in his beautiful love-song ‘Of
A’ The Airts’ (airt means direction in Scots by the way). I’m with him on this.
Blow back soon, warm west winds!</span></span></span></div>
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Pier has been knocked down and a new one is currently being built.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.66px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The lower section of the Boguille Road near
Lochranza is being widened. Until the end of March during the daytime you will
need to drive round by the String Road and Machrie to get to the North End.</span></span></div>
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where we do we cannot help but be keenly aware of nature: the direction of the
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I were driving home over the Boguillie at about half past eight at night, descending
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that we have a responsibility to keep our ditches clear so that rainfall in the
valley can flow without obstruction into the sea. It is one of our major autumn
jobs on the golf course. We clean them out carefully by hand so as not to
unduly disturb the mini-ecosystems and the slippery toads, glossy beetles and
wee silvery fish which inhabit them. It’s always a satisfying job and we were
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to Lady Jean Fforde who died aged 96 years earlier this month and whose
devotion to her beloved island of Arran was beyond question. Descended from the
great Scottish families of Hamilton and Montrose, Lady Jean’s childhood was
spent in Brodick Castle. Indeed, for centuries her ancestors owned the entire
island. Later in life, she gave the castle to the National Trust for Scotland
in lieu of death duties but she continued to stay on Arran. As she said herself
‘There can be few people who have had their home in one place all their lives
as I have.’ She was personally involved in many island charities and
organisations and always took a keen interest in island life. Her
autobiographical book ‘Castles and Catastrophes’, available at the Book and
Card shop in Brodick, describes in lively style the great changes she lived
through, beginning with the era of the grand Scottish sporting estates. I
enjoyed it enormously. The land around Lochranza is owned by her son, Charles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">One of Billy
Connolly’s ‘weel-kent’ comments is that Scotland has two seasons: June and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">My version is
that, here in Lochranza at any rate, autumn, like winter, takes up more than
its allotted portion of the year. It is also the loveliest of the seasons in my
opinion. When our late spring arrives the speed of the greening up of the trees
- alder, rowan, hawthorn, willow, hazel, birch and ash (always the last for its
leaves to open)- is remarkable. Autumn, on the other hand, is like a slow
sunset in which the glowing colours of the land gradually brighten and deepen. Whilst
summery weather can be elusive and winter slow to leave, autumn is the grand
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">By the end of
July, the bracken on the lower hillsides, which shoots up higher than our heads
during June, begins to turn golden and chestnut at the edges. It slowly collapses,
curls and crumples into itself, making walking off the path easier again. Shining
scarlet clusters of berries dangle from the rowan trees after which Lochranza
is named. As the sunset retreats southwards towards Catacol, dusk closes in surprisingly
fast and the click and clash of antlers echoes round the glen. The necks of the
red deer stags have thickened with bearing the weight of their coronets of
deadly sharp points. They strut around regally, gathering admiring audiences.
Meanwhile the golden eagles fly high, unobserved but no doubt observing
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In November,
the sun leaves Lochranza until February, its low daily journey taking it behind
Lochranza’s high hills. Most people in the village know the exact dates when
the sun will leave and return to their homes. Throughout the winter it can appear
briefly in the bealachs (cols) between hills, and on bright days you can watch
the shifting boundary of light and shade on the higher hillsides. It’s
essential to dress up warm if you’re working outside in midwinter in the chilly
damp and shade of the deep valley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In March
light evenings lengthen rapidly. Freak weather can take us by surprise: we have
known blizzards, floods and heatwaves in early spring. By April delicate pale
yellow primroses are scattered on the cliffs of the old raised beaches, turning
their faces to the sky, but it is usually well into May before spring proper
arrives accompanied by a symphony of birdsong. This year I tried to record the
spring wildflowers that I noticed on my daily walk in Glen Chalmadale and was
surprised how they changed week by week, with wood anemones and violets quickly
superseded by bluebells and yellow flag iris, in turn bowing out to
pinky-purple foxgloves, the exotic rhododendron ponticum and frothy creamy may
blossom. It can seem that the change from winter to summer takes little more
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In midsummer
the sun in the late evening suffuses the head of the glen with rosy gold light
and defines the cracks on the craggy face of Torr Nead an Eoin. Turn right
round and you can watch the sun descend slowly and finally disappear behind the
silhouette of the Kintyre hills. For weeks the nights never get darker than a
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Now, in late
September, the red squirrels are busy as bees darting between trees and
rustling amongst leaves as they amass their winter hoards. Starry nights have
returned and when it’s a clear sky I make sure I go outside before bed to watch
the slow silent circling of Cassiopiea, the Plough and the Northern Cross. One
night white billowing clouds illuminated by a nearly full moon galloped across
the sky on the back of a south-west wind. Yet it appeared that the stars were
rushing like a twinkling river in the opposite direction and it was clouds that
were stationary. On such nights, the mountains cradle the quiet of night like a
church, the only sound the hushed music of water splashing its way to the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rain has
never been far away from Arran this summer. We have had clear, warm sunshine
too – it just hasn’t stayed around for long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here at
the head of the glen in Lochranza, if you pause in your daily activity you will
nearly always hear the sound of water, sometimes a gentle splash and murmur
when the burn is running low and sometimes, after rain, a resonating roar as it
crashes down the waterfalls in Gleann Easan Biorach and hurtles headlong past
the campsite before rushing into the saltwater of the Duarchan (the head of Loch
Ranza). If I were asked to define the experience of living in Lochranza it
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arran
rain, fresh from the Atlantic, fills the peat bogs on top of Lochranza’s hills
and sometimes they become laden to the brim and water spills over the edge of
the hillsides forming new waterfalls. Water changes the landscape here before
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
favourite thing about summer on Arran is having weather warm enough to make the
most of this plentiful water supply. I measure the amount of sunshine we get
each summer by the number of swims I have, whether in the sea, a burn or a
lochan. I confess I am a fair weather swimmer. Technically, I wouldn’t call
what I do swimming: I dip, I wallow, I splash, I float- nothing purposeful. I
slither into the water very, very slowly, then once I’m in I never want to get
out, enjoying the tingling of cold water on my skin. North Arran’s glacial
scenery of U-shaped glens has long necklaces of sun-warmed pools, where you can
splash in solitude, listening to the breeze rustling the grass and the tweet of
meadow pipits, and relishing the fresh tangy smell of peat. Tiny yellow
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arran does not have lazy deep rivers –water tumbles down
its steep mountain slopes from summit to sea in no time. This type of burn is
called uisge in Arran Gaelic. The island does have a handful of small lochs all
reached by walks up into the hills. Loch Garbad is silent, surrounded by
coniferous forest, Urie Loch and Loch Tanna are high up on the moors, lonely
and lovely. Coire Fhionn Lochan, cupped in the western mountain range, is icy
cold with little golden gravel beaches. The water of each loch tipples out into
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varied rocks bear witness to long ago volcanoes and a journey across the planet
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village, Lochranza public toilets overlook the beautiful Kilbrannan Sound. If
you’re a reader of the Arran Banner weekly newspaper you will be aware that the
closure of the island’s public toilets earlier this year was highly
controversial and local people and visitors alike protested vociferously and
persistently. North Ayrshire Council, like many other councils, had had to make
tough decisions about where its financial priorities lay.</span></div>
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island have attempted to resolve the issue and make provision for the basic
needs of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to the island. No one
wanted anyone to stay away for fear that there would not be a toilet should
they need one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Lochranza, Tony Baboolal, a retired doctor got
together a small band of volunteers to get the village toilets open again. As
usual, the practicalities were straightforward, but sorting out the legalities
has slowed things down. Recognising that the toilets are needed now, Tony and
the Lochranza Loos group have decided to get the toilets open and not delay
matters further by waiting to refurbish them. This will come later. For now,
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everyone can enjoy from the youngest to oldest and whether it’s sunny or
raining? The answer is a short distance from your camping pitch: golf! Only
preconceptions that golf is difficult, expensive and you need a lot of specialist
gear will stand in your way because golf has reinvented itself from what it was
twenty years ago. Courses have become havens for wildlife and clubs have made
learning to play affordable. Everyone who has played golf knows: it’s a great
experience and it’s addictive!</span></div>
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Lochranza’s wide green fairways. Lochranza Golf has golfing options: two
putting greens, a nine hole pitch and putt course and a nine hole golf course.
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down the flat floor of the glen where the burn, Chalmadale Waters, meanders
across it. It lies in the heart of the glen and as you play there is every likelihood
that you will see red deer stags and soaring golden eagles. Eventually you
reach the head of the loch and see the sea and the castle. As you play, decisions
have to be made –safe or ambitious- and challenges attempted. </span></div>
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encourage children to play such as working in pairs with one ball and taking
alternative shots. Some children are spurred on by competition whilst some are
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for a week’s holiday) and all welcome visitors. Each one has its own character,
challenges and beautiful location. You can find out more about them at </span><a href="http://www.golfonarran.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">www.golfonarran.com</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arran is well-known as Scotland in Miniature (because the North has Highlands scenery and the South has Lowlands scenery) but perhaps it is Norway in Miniature too. I opened my June copy of The Great Outdoors magazine from Arran Active in Brodick and saw Cioch na Hoighe as it appears from Sannox. Except it wasn't. It was a peak in Norway.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">We’ve
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">We’re thrilled to bits to have received a Gold Award from
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">This is what the Assessor said: “Lochranza Campsite does
well securing the GOLD award at first grading attempt. Kathryn and Nigel have
clearly put in a lot of effort to reduce some of the bigger potential impacts
of the site, engage with other island organisations/ charities, and also give a
really green experience to guests. Local information is outstanding. Much time
has obviously been spent creating information on walks, local food and drink
and wildlife- encouraging guests to hopefully spend more time on the island
(and use low carbon transport). A more efficient boiler and building is in
place, combined with low energy lighting and also low flow showers, taps and
toilets, helping to reduce significant potential wastage”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Businesses are assessed for the award using criteria
relating to nine sections: management, marketing and communication, social
responsibility and equality, energy saving, water issues, purchasing, waste
minimisation, travel and transport and nature and culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">We don’t see the award as an end but the beginning of a
green journey- we want to ensure that the impacts we have on the lovely place
we live in are purely positive ones. We know there’s a lot more we can achieve
and our Gold Award has encouraged us to try even harder.</span><br />
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hooded crow, a common bird with uncommon ability</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Spring truly arrives here at the end of April in an
explosion of yellow whin blossom (whin is also known as gorse). Did you ever
play the children’s game in which someone holds a buttercup under your chin to
see if you like butter? The bright yellow of the flower reflects on your skin
and you are told you like butter. The whin blossom reminds me of this because
the butter-coloured bushes illuminate the hills above them at this time of year.
Birdsong is a soundtrack that doesn’t cease in the hours of daylight; the
cuckoo calls hopefully to prospective mates, and the lambs have become
confident enough to leave their mothers and join up as gangs that chase wildly round
the bunkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">In Lochranza we keep having a quick look upwards throughout
the day to see the golden eagles soaring serenely above the glen. However, the
birds we get to know best are the ones who make a choice to share life on the
campsite. Every year we watch for the swallows’ return to their old nests in
our sheds (they’ve just arrived as I write this) as well as the starling that
nests in a hole in the big tree stump, sticking out its scruffy black head now
and then like a wee chimney sweep. Our most familiar bird is the hooded crow
who probably knows much more about us than we know about her or him. She/ he is
a large and impressive-looking member of the crow family with a glossy black
head and an intelligent expression, a black bib, elegant steel grey plumage and
dark grey wings, tail and legs. She is in the habit of sitting on our balcony looking
at us through the window. If I put meat scraps out for her she croaks three
times (always three!) and then four other members of the family appear and all
get a bit of food; this might not be language but it’s certainly a
communication system. She strides jerkily and flies a bit like an aircraft
carrier, low and slow, but mainly she spends her time keeping campsite life
under surveillance. In fact, as tough, clever and adaptable birds, ‘hoodies’
are renowned for their problem-solving abilities. According to the 2016 Arran
Bird Report the crow family is ‘considered to be the most intelligent of the
birds’ with a ‘brain-to-body mass ratio equal to that of great apes’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">The Bird Report explains how hooded crows and carrion crows
are closely related. In the last Ice Age they developed plumage differences
during their occupation of two ice free areas: one in the Balkans and one in
the Iberian Peninsula. Today, their European distribution reveals hoodies in
the east and the all black carrion crow in the west EXCEPT in a narrow zone of
overlap which includes Arran and where interbreeding takes place which can
produce fertile hybrids – look out for these birds with their variable amounts
of black and grey plumage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">There are a lot of jackdaws to be seen around the
campsite too. They are sometimes confused with hoodies because of their dark
heads. However, jackdaws are smaller than hoodies and usually operate in large
groups, sometimes landing on sheep and deer to peck off parasites, a service
the animals seem to appreciate. For recognising the differences between similar
birds take a look at:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><a href="http://www.bto.org/about-birds/bird-id"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">www.bto.org/about-birds/bird-id</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">The Arran Bird Report is full of interesting records and
information and this year’s copy (Arran Bird Report 2016) is now available in
shops round the island.</span></div>
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