Sunset on eBothy Blog

great wee sunrisesunset tool

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Courtesy of the Natural Navigator, a handy wee web page that shows you where and when the sun will rise anywhere on the planet!

cairngorms high camping

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

At long last our mutual diaries were clear and I met up with my oldest and bestest friend Allan, aka The Penguin, at the wee car park on the ski road and headed off into the wilds for a high camp on Braeriach. So it was down to the river, swollen with the interminable summer rain this year and up past Lapland, the reindeer station and along the excellent path to the Chalamain Gap. It’s an interesting name is Chalamain. Calman is the Gaelic for dove but it’s pronounced with the svarahbakti vowel, which means it sounds like calaman and I suspect it’s just been named after the peak directly above it, Creag a’Chalamain or rock of the dove, as Chalamain isn’t a real word on its own, meaning “of the dove”. So there must have been a colony of rock doves here at some point and rocky it certainly is.

the cloud cometh

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

With all that gear stuff out of the way, I’m now free to stare at the clouds again and what superb Cirrus we had yesterday afternoon:

a warm skye evening

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a fantastic late summer day on Skye today and I managed to snap some pics, perhaps the last of the warm weather. It’s been a superb summer on Skye, in contrast to the record breaking wet weather throughout the rest of the UK. It was so dry at one point, three months without rain, that we almost ran out of water and a lot of the neebs actually did, as we’re all on springs. This morning on the way to work I snapped crepuscular rays slanting down in front of Sgurr na Coinnich across the Sleat moorland.

sunset on the shortest day

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Just back from the top of Beinn nan Carn to see the sunset on the shortest day. The weather at the eBothy has been fantastic all week. There’s some rain due tomorrow morning, then clearing up. Hopefully that high pressure area on the continent will stay where it is to keep the weather superb.