November 2006 - Canoeist Magazine
November 2006 - Canoeist Magazine
November 2006 - Canoeist Magazine
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Guide<br />
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Kirkibost and Kilmarie, which was home to the<br />
Mackinnon chiefs, Abhainn Cille Mhaire discharging<br />
through a sheltered estuary. A graveyard, cemetery and<br />
the remains of a dun are located around the woods.<br />
Wild raspberries, small but full of flavour, grow along<br />
the shoreline. Castle Keep produces hand forged<br />
swords, knives and dirks and Duncan House is where<br />
Garth Duncan produces traditional knives and Celtic<br />
jewellery in gold, silver and platinum.<br />
There is another tomb near the remains of Dùn<br />
Liath and, before Dùn Grugaig, the Spar Cave which<br />
has many stalactites.<br />
Columns forming on the Glasnakille coast.<br />
Beyond Rubha na h-Easgainne and Eilean na h-<br />
Airde is Port an Luig Mhòir with a notable cave.<br />
Prince Charles’s Cave is where the Pretender hid on<br />
5th July 1746 before leaving for Mallaig, his final<br />
departure from the island with which he is so closely<br />
associated.<br />
Suidhe Biorach with Sgurr Alasdair rising behind.<br />
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Cliffs beyond Suidhe Biorach. Note the cow.<br />
Rounding Suidhe Biorach brings into view the<br />
spread of the Black Cuillins, their frost shattered peaks<br />
separated by corries and cliffs to their 990m rock<br />
crown. They are best seen by the general public from<br />
Elgol at the end of the single track B8083. In the past,<br />
infertile couples came not for the view but to drink<br />
the water of a near by well and invoke the well’s<br />
guardian spirit to make them fertile. Operating from<br />
the jetty is the Bella Jane, said to offer Scotland’s only 5<br />
star boat trip, to Loch Coruisk.<br />
Weak flows into Loch Scavaig begin an hour and<br />
twenty minutes after Dover high water and flow out<br />
from four hours forty minutes before Dover high<br />
water. More important are the sudden and violent<br />
gusts off 895m Gars-bleinn which drive clouds of spray<br />
and a considerable sea, especially near the head of the<br />
loch, but are quickly past, leaving calm conditions.<br />
The compass is also unreliable in this area but it should<br />
not be hard to identify Camas Fhionnairigh with the<br />
Abhainn Camas Fhionnairigh flowing into it, Loch<br />
nan Leacd and Loch na Cuilce with the Scavaig River<br />
flowing into it from glaciated Loch Coruisk, perhaps<br />
the most evocative place in Europe. The climb from<br />
The best view in Britain. The Black Cuillins rise in a swe