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• Crinans pyroligneous past.

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  As we entered Loch Crinan, the setting sun lit the north shore with a crimson light. The lonely farmhouse of Ardifuir nestles in a bowl in the hills. The agricultural land between it and the sea is a former raised beach.Further into the loch we passed below the ancient walls of Duntrune castle.We entered the shade at ...
  1 day ago

• Shop this week’s online sample sales

  
  Handbag du Jour - Authentic Designer Handbag & Purses, Celebrity Bags, Interviews & Reviews — Authority: 134
  Just click on the links to sign up and shop! Rent the Runway is a free, highly exclusive and invitation-only site. In order to join, please email me at editor (at) whatshaute (dot) com Gilt Groupe Wednesday, 11/25/09: Valentino Pret-a-Porter , Frette, Jewelry by Isharya, Jonathan Kelsey Thursday, 11/26/09: ...
  3 days ago

• Back for more in the Dorus Mor!

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  From Reisa an t-Sruith we were transported on a tidal conveyor belt across the Sound of Jura.We were propelled through the Dorus Mor at 12km/hr.We broke out into a counter eddy on the north shore of Garbh Reisa and went back for more, several times!Once through the Dorus Mor we were on the home straight to Crinan.To ...
  3 days ago

• The mystery of the goats of Reisa an t-Sruith

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  We now were on a course back to the Dorus Mor and Crinan but first we had to clear the north end of tiny Reisa an t-Sruith. Its name means something like the race of the torrent.Initially we were carried north but very quickly the ebb started carrying us south and we just scraped past its north end under the eye of ...
  4 days ago

• Calculating slack water in the Corryvreckan

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  I am currently writing a sea kayaking guidebook book for Pesda Press "Argyll and the South West, Ardnamuchan to the Solway Firth by Sea Kayak. (ISBN 978-1-906095). This is one of the most complex areas of the UK coastline and I am determined that it will be a piece of work which is thoroughly researched, both in terms ...
  5 days ago

• I heart Coke’s new plastic cap

  
  Caroleen's Treasures — Authority: 126
  I started sewing in the other room tonight and I think my output is better. Well to me it is but Donald can’t tell the difference when I showed him. I don’t think I can get a good response from him. Forgot I married a sanguine eh! LOL But in fairness he is my critic on every crafts I make. He has an eye for beauty ...
  5 days ago

• A Perfect Friday Night Dinner for One

  
  Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog — Authority: 118
  My wife, a clear-thinking woman in her mid 30s, somehow found herself going to see that new vampire movie on a recent Friday night. The one with the cute couple - British guy and American girl, all over the cover of People magazine. You know the movie Im talking about. When the wife goes out and Im home alone with ...
  6 days ago

• Showdown with a goat in the Corryvreckan!

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  We entered the Corryvreckan in somewhat calmer circumstances than our last visit. Even in windless conditions the flood was bubbling and boiling like a witchs cauldron. The sight and sound of such a huge volume of water rushing by at 18km/hour was quite moving, in fact Phil later described it as a buttock clenching ...
  1 week ago

• Anthus pratensis – Buteo buteo (?)

  
  Deep in Birds — Authority: 117
  Anthus pratensis -Λιβαδοκελάδα – Meadow Pipit The identification of this Buteo maybe needs a further searching. A possible Buteo lagopus ? Jura mountains 3/8.
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• Menace hung in the windless air, even for the most daring and venturesome.

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  Common sense would suggest that we should have relaxed on the beach on Scarbas NW coast until near slack water in the Corryvreckan.We were not having any of that, we wanted to see the whirlpool in action!As we paddled down the west coast of Scarba, with Colonsay on the horizon, it gradually dawned on Phil that the ...
  1 week ago

• Former LURD Leader Returns to Liberia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The former leader of the disbanded rebel movement Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), Sekou Damante Conneh, returned to Liberia Tuesday following a prolonged absence from the country. Conneh reportedly arrived in Monrovia Tuesday afternoon from neighboring Sierra Leone, where he sought refuge ...
  1 week ago

• Definitely a Good Cup of Coffee

  
  Articlr — Authority: 130
  I don’t know about you, but I can sure tell when you have a good cup of coffee and a horrible attempt at coffee.  Though I am no connoisseur, for the one cup of coffee that I do have each day, I want to enjoy every moment of it. It has been a real treat since I purchased a jura coffee machine and each morning ...
  1 week ago

• Super Automatic Espresso Machines/Jura-capresso 13421 ENA4

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 585
  The jura-capresso super automatic espresso machines 13421 ENA4 Automatic Coffee and Espresso Center, Ristretto Black allows you to enjoy authentic crema coffee, espresso, cappuccino, and latte from the comfort of home. Easy to use, it grinds, tamps, brews, and self cleans in under 60 seconds–all at the touch of a ...
  1 week ago

• Friends to watch over you

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  Looking back at the Grey Dogs, from a distance of over 2km, it all seemed so calm and innocent.To the north the mountains of Mull dominated the distant horizon. The long necklace of islands that make up the Garvellachs and the Black Islands lay in the middle distance and little Guirasdeal and Lunga were in the ...
  1 week ago

• Interiors: Bambi Sloans apartment is a frenzy of colour

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  The interior designer Bambi Sloan has no time for those who take houses too seriously - her Parisian apartment is a frenzy of colour and playfulness.
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• Invite from a dear Friend

  
  My Endless Thoughts — Authority: 122
  My friend just rang me this morning and asked how I am going? I said, getting huge and feeling so bumpy each day. Its been a while since I last see her and I am planning to meet up with her before Christmas. I hope to hand something for her kids as a little something for Christmas. She told me about the new stuff she ...
  1 week ago

• A whiter shade of pale in the Sound of Jura

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  Once ejected from the Dorus Mor, we had to avoid the eddy, which at the the beginning of the flood runs south down the west side of Garbh Reisa.We were not the only ones watching out for eddies. We came across the MV Margaret Sinclair heading in the opposite direction to ourselves. Her twin engines put out 640HP but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crossing the Rubicon in the Dorus Mor

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  We paddled out of the shady confines of the hills surrounding Loch Crinan and emerged into a sunlit Sound of Jura.The unmistakable outline of the Paps of Jura defined the horizon to the south west.We were now in the narrowing northern reaches of the Sound of Jura and the full force of the spring tide was accelerating ...
  2 weeks ago

• En route from Crinan, bound for...?

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  On a cold frosty morning in mid October, we found ourselves in Crinan on the west coast of Scotlands long Kintyre peninsula. We had come here because a floating pontoon would allow me to get easy access to the water despite my injured knee.Crinan is the launch point for many peoples nautical adventures.It is at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Farewell to Islay, Oronsay, Colonsay and Jura

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 128
  Sadly, it was now time to say farewell to the fabulous islands of Islay, Oronsay, Colonsay and Jura. We stayed out on the observation deck of the MV Hebridean Isles. We were lost in our thoughts of rocky mountains, dazzling sands, raised beaches and caves, ancient buildings and traces of our ancestors which went back ...
  2 weeks ago

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