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Images from Machir Bay

January 12, 2012
All these images were taken by Colin Woolf, at Machir Bay on Islay.   The camera was a Nikon D300, …
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Finlaggan and the Lords of the Isles

November 08, 2011
Historic sites don't get more fascinating than this: once a seat of power in western Scotland, these windswept island …
  • Geology

Staffa: Pillars of creation

October 16, 2011
This tiny island off the west coast of Mull looks like the setting for the latest Titan-themed Hollywood movie...
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New book - 'Britain's Trees'
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I'm honoured to be Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. This book celebrates the lives of 50 great explorers......
BRITISH TREES
  • The wisdom of the oak
  • The Scots pine: keeper of the forest
  • The spirit of the alder
  • The fragrance of juniper
SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Skipness Castle and Kilbrannan Chapel
  • Blackness Castle
  • Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on
  • In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle
MEGALITHIC
  • Nether Largie: secrets in stone
  • Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’
  • The Tuilyies stones
  • A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule
  • Culross Abbey
  • An old graveyard near Callander
  • The Govan Stones
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