The Studio Jewellery Workshop & Gallery
Goldsmith Susam Plowman's studio is in nearby village of Achnasheen from which she sells her jewellery and silverware, as well as ceramics, glass, and woodcarvings. She mainly works to commission specialising in fine stone set jewellery and traditional enamelling techniques both Cloisonne and Plique-a-jour. A recent addition is a new Cafe built onto the rear of the workshop. The site also offer some local history, and accommodation information for Achnasheen, a tiny village (pop. 28) served by the Kyle railway and sitting at the foot of Bheinn Fionn in Strathbran.
http://www.studiojewellery.com 

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Business, services, and shops

CLiK Development
Based both in Aberdeen and Lochcarron, CLiK specialises in creating websites and e-business applications, offering Web design and hosting, including database driven sites, and websites with shopping cart and secure payment facilities, and online catalogues. The company is also active in the field of software development, database design and implementation, and the development of knowledge portals.
http://www.clikdevelopment.co.uk/  

Highland Dreams Relocation Agency
Operating from the shores of Loch Ewe in the heart of Wester Ross, Nicola Taylor’s agency provides assistance, practical advice, and dossiers of essential information for those who feel stressed out with an urban lifestyle, and may be contemplating relocation to the Wester Ross area of the Scottish Highlands. (Nicola Taylor is also the author of the useful Live & Work in Scotland (Vacation Work Publications, 2001, £10.99; more details at http://www.vacationwork.co.uk/index1.php)
http://freespace.virgin.net/nicola.taylor/
highland-dreams.htm

James Mould Business Services
A local enterprise offering a personalized service for small businesses in the Scottish Highlands. Services include website design - and advice on the use of the Internet as a promotion and marketing tool - data processing, and mail merge. 
http://www.james-mould.co.uk/ 

Lochcarron and District Business Association
The new website of the recently established Lochcarron & District Business Association offers a wide variety of information on the Lochcarron area and its community— attractions, local services, leisure activities, and more, together with a calendar of major events during the year. There is also a Local Diary (of day-to-day events, meetings, etc. updateable by anyone with a password), and a searchable directory of local business and community organizations, with full contact addresses, descriptive information, and links to websites (where available).
http://www.lochcarron.org.uk/

Lochcarron Fire Brigade
Part of the Highlands & Islands Fire Brigade, Lochcarron has its own part-time fire brigade equipped with a small appliance and it has a wee fire station. As a small local unit it also does a great deal of work to raise awareness of fire prevention, which has recently included a campaign to make Lochcarron the first village in the UK to have smoke detectors fitted in every home—for free! Local artist Vicky Stonebridge, who hosts this site (and see also http://www.balnacra.com/ above), provides the gender balance in the seven member crew of fire fighters.
http://www.balnacra.com/fire/index.htm  

Lochcarron Food Centre - Spar Girls
The Bebo site of the always friendly and cheerful staff of the local Spar shop, better known as the Lochcarron Food Centre, or LFC. Among other accolades, it won the Village Shop of the Year Award in 2005-and, it ought to be added, very much deservedly so. The site has pics of the "girls" (and one of Kenny too!), and profiles of the "band members". Not much else going on here though-"Not much to say", it tells you on the blog. (The shop itself, which also serves as the village Post Office, does not have a website as yet).
http://www.bebo.com/Spar-Girls 

The Lochcarron Library
The small public library in the Howard Doris Centre provides adult lending and reference facilities, as well as maintaining a children’s library. The library organizes frequent book promotional and reading events and competitions for children.
http://www.highland.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/libraries/yourlocallibrary/lochcarronlib.htm

Lochcarron School of English
A small language school that offers one and two week courses for students of all ages and stages. Students live either in the home of the teacher or in another comfortable family home. Teaching takes places every morning for three hours, and the rest of the time is free for students to enjoy a holiday in this attractive part of the Scottish Highlands.
http://www.speakingenglish.co.uk/

Lochcarron Weavers/Lochcarron of Scotland
The Lochcarron Weavers have produced tartans for over three generations. Although their headquarters are now in Galashiels, they still maintain premises in Lochcarron, which are located some two miles from the village on the road to Strome, and where tartan is still woven on the old looms. The shop offers a wide range of knitwear, tartan and tweeds, and demonstrations of weaving take place throughout the year Monday to Friday, to which visitors are welcome.
http://www.lochcarron.com/

Plockton High School/Ard-Sgoil A' Phluic
Secondary school pupils in Lochcarron take a 40 minute bus trip every day to get to their local school, the Plockton High School in the picturesque fishing village of Plockton in Wester Ross (see also http://www.plockton.com/). The school serves a large rural rural catchment area and enjoys a reputation for excellence. It recently received a favourable report from HM Inspectors (see http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/inspection/PlocktonHighschool.html 22 June 2004). One of Plockton High School's strengths is its extensive range of extra-curricular activities. For example, it is the home of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music http://www.musicplockton.org , which provides an opportunity for young Scottish traditional musicians to develop their skills. Performances are held regularly, and the Centre offers tuition in pipes, fiddle, accordion, clàrsach, piano, guitar, whistle, flute and both Gaelic and Scots song. And the school's Head of Computing and a team of school pupils, in association with a small local charity, are involved in a 'Computers for Africa' initiative that aims to bridge the digital divide in Africa by supplying computers and provide IT training in primary and secondary schools in rural areas of Lesotho, South Africa and Zimbabwe. A school brochure can be downloaded from the website, and the site also offers video links with short presentations by members of staff.
http://www.plocktonhigh.highland.sch.uk/  

Strathcarron Centre
The Strathcarron Centre (located in part of the Strathcarron Station building) incorporates a community Learning Centre specialising in rural skills training, a Visitor Information Centre with seasonal exhibitions, and a Post Office/Store offering public Internet access.
http://www.strathcarron-centre.com/  

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Directories

Focus on Lochcarron
This is part of the “Undiscovered Scotland” online guide. The pages on Lochcarron provide basic information about the village, local services and facilities, and links to hotels, guest houses and self catering accommodation. It states, rightly, that “Lochcarron tends not to feature prominently in guides to north west Scotland, which is a shame.” Amen to that!
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lochcarron/lochcarron/index.html

Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland – Find out all about it on the Web
Compiled by Peter Reynolds, this useful directory is the most comprehensive collection of links about Lochcarron and, additionally, it offers a local email directory. It also includes links to some photographs and descriptions, visitors’ impressions, as well as zoomable maps of the area.
http://www.lochcarrondirectory.co.uk/

Wester Ross Facilities
A directory of local facilities (banks, beaches, churches, dentists, doctors, garages and petrol stations, post offices, shops, etc.) in Lochcarron, Shieldaig, Torridon, and in some other parts of Wester Ross.
http://www.wester-ross.com/facilities.htm

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Highland & Community Council Websites/Community groups

Highland Council. Environmental Health Department, Inspection Reports
The Higland Council's Environmental Health department forms part of its Transport, Environmental & Community Services. A key goal of the section is to promote or enforce standards that preserve public health, public safety and protect the environment. This website lists businesses that have had food and premises inspections carried out since April 2005, most them reports relating to food hygiene and food standards. The pages for the link below are for Ross & Cromarty establishments, listed in alphabetical order by name. Clicking on any of them brings up the inspection report, with all references to regulations referring to the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995. From http://wwwold.highland.gov.uk/prots/eh-inspections/eh-inspections-intro.htm   you can also view inspection reports for premises in other areas, for example in Inverness, or the Skye and Lochalsh area, or you can use the search facilities to find a particular establishment or business. These include hotels, guest houses, restaurants, food shops, bakeries, and butchers, and there also reports about care homes and schools that have been inspected. This is a very useful public service.
http://wwwold.highland.gov.uk/prots/eh-inspections/by-area/ross-&-cromarty-eh-establishments.htm    

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Hotels & accommodation/Restaurants (in Lochcarron and nearby)

Airdaniar Croft Cottage
A traditional stone built croft cottage recently refurbished and now offering self-catering accommodation. The cottage is well equipped and is just off the Applecross coast road (8 miles from Applecross village) in a wonderfully secluded and tranquil setting, with stunning views over the Inner Sound towards Raasay, Rona and the Trotternish area of Skye. Other attractions include a walled cottage garden, a herb garden, and a wild garden with patio, furniture and barbecue.
http://www.applecross-coast.co.uk/

Allt-A-Chuirn Bed & Breakfast
Conveniently located at the west end of Lochcarron village - and just a few minutes walk from all local facilities - Allt-A-Chuirn Bed & Breakfast offers one spacious en-suite double bedroom. Evening meals, if required, can be provided by prior arrangement.
http://www.allt-a-chuirn.co.uk/  

The Applecross Inn
A secluded Inn of great charm and character offering seven rooms (all with sea views and three en suite) and a lively bar. Its restaurant has deservedly earned several accolades for outstanding cuisine, among them The Good Pub Guide "Fish Pub of the Year 2003". Truly fresh seafood, most of it local, is its speciality, and the owner of the Applecross Inn is the appropriately named Judith Fish. Vegetables are also locally sourced, as are locally produced 'Gloucester Old Spot' pork sausages, made with herbs from nearby Tosciag. 
http://www.applecross.uk.com/inn/index.htm  

Attadale Estate & Gardens 
A 32,000 acre estate, stretching from the south shore of Loch Carron to Loch Monar. The estate has four holiday cottages to let and its beautiful gardens are open to the public for a modest charge. The Attadale Gardens are renowned for some very old rhododendrons, and there are also azaleas and rare shrubs in a woodland setting, together with water gardens. Attadale is served by its own train station on the line to Kyle of Lochalsh.
http://www.attadale.com/about_attadale.html

Aultsigh B&B
A modern bungalow offering bed and breakfast accommodation in a quiet road just above Lochcarron, with spectacular views over Loch Carron and the mountains beyond. One double, one family and one twin room is available. Residents lounge. Bathroom and shower room. A full Highland breakfast is provided to guests.
http://www.wester-ross.com/accommodation/aultsigh.htm  

Bellevue Apartment
Bellevue Apartment is a spacious and comfortable first-floor flat in a traditional stone house that now serves as the local family butcher's shop. Sited directly across the road from the shore, the apartment enjoys fine views over Loch Carron and the scenery beyond. Recently refurbished to a high standard, the apartment is available for weekly self-catering holiday lets all year round and sleeps up to five in three bedrooms, one double, one twin and one single.
http://www.bellevuelochcarron.co.uk/  

Carron Restaurant
On the south shore of Loch Carron at Cam-allt, just outside Strathcarron, this family-run restaurant offers home baking and cooking, uses locally grown produce whenever possible, and all meat and fish dishes are freshly prepared on the chargrill. Also serves a variety of home made vegetarian dishes. The Carron Pottery, Craft Shop and Art Gallery is next door to the restaurant.
http://www.carronrestaurant.com/

Castle Cottage
This comfortable, family-run B&B situated on the village shore front in Lochcarron - and now under the new management of Andy Laing and Susan Nelson - is very close to local shops, pubs and restaurants, and offers rooms with panoramic views over Loch Carron and the hills and mountains beyond. Accommodation available consists of one double room with en-suite shower room, one twin room, plus one double room/family room, all with tea/coffee-making facilities and TV (the twin and double room have private wash basins but share facilities). There is also a private residents lounge with TV.
http://www.castlecottagebandb.co.uk/  

Gerry's Achnashellach Hostel
Gerry Howkins's independent hostel offers comfortable accommodation in a "hobbit-style environment" and in an idyllic remote setting. The property was originally built as two semi-detached cottages to house rail workers and their families when the West Coast Railway was created. The railway line is on one side of the hostel, the road on the other. Accommodation is available for up to 20 in three rooms, and there are two small family rooms and a common room with log fire. Fully equipped kitchen, small food store and drying room. Showers, blankets and duvets are supplied; sheets available for hire. The non-smoking hostel, which is open throughout the year, is located in Craig on the A890 between Achnasheen and Lochcarron, and is 2 miles east of Achnashellach railway station on the Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line.
http://www.gerryshostel-achnashellach.co.uk/ or
http://www.hostel-scotland.co.uk/hostels/index.asp?ID=61 

Glayva Luxury Holiday Cottage
Completely renovated in 2009, this attractively furnished self-catering cottage on Lochcarron's Main Street, just across the road from the shores of Loch Carron, sleeps four people in comfort. The owners aim to provide touches of luxury by, for example, a double ended bath with a waterfall feature tap, a shower room with heated floor tiling, a wood burning stove, an iPod dock, and more. You can also watch a video on this site of dolphins in Loch Carron, chasing a boat-while the boat owner's dog yelps furiously!
http://www.glayvacottage.com/index.html    

Glenelg Inn
If you are travelling to the Isle of Skye on the Glenelg Skye Ferry (http://www.skyeferry.co.uk/, see also separate entry under http://www.hanszell.co.uk/lochcarron.shtml#travel) stop at the Glenelg Inn for a good pub lunch; or stay overnight in one of the comfortable seven rooms (check out rotating/panoramic views of the bedrooms on the hotel's website), and enjoy excellent Scottish cuisine in the evenings. The hotel, originally an old coaching mews, is in a lovely setting, and during summer time you can have lunch in the garden, overlooking Glenelg Bay and the Isle of Skye. Bestselling travel writer Bill Bryson found it "sublimely cozy…an outpost of comfort and graciousness". The hotel is presided over by landlord Chris Main, who, in another hotel review, is described by Radio 5 DJ Nicki Campbell as "a sort of Scottish Basil Fawlty"-albeit in a more affectionate sense! Nearby, about a mile and a half south of the village (up a side road in a field, but well signposted) are the remains of the Glenelg Broch Towers, two defensive towers, Dun Telve and Dun Troddan, thought to have been erected about 2000 years ago and occupied by families of Picts, the ancient people inhabiting northern Scotland in Roman times. 
http://www.glenelg-inn.com/  

Glenview Cottage
Found in a picturesque valley surrounded by natural woodland and pine forests, Glenview (self-catering) Cottage enjoys uninterrupted views of largely unspoilt natural habitat rich in wildlife. Situated in the small rural hamlet of Achmore in Ross-shire, it is 7 miles from the village of Plockton. Glenview offers accommodation for up to 6 people (2 double bedrooms and 1 twin bedded room).
http://www.glenview-cottage.co.uk 

Hill Haven Kinlochewe Bed & Breakfast
David and Lilah Ford's B&B in the small village of Kinlochewe, http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinlochewe/kinlochewe/index.html on the Wester Ross coastal trail, and set amidst the spectacular backdrop of the Torridon mountains. It is within walking distance to local amenities and the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve*. The accommodation comprises two double rooms and one twin room, all en-suite. 
http://www.kinlochewe.info/  
*Note: for websites on the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve see (among others):
http://www.snh.org.uk/nnr-scotland/reserve.asp?NNRId=15  
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/248991
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/torridon/beinneighe/index.html 

Ledgowan Lodge Hotel
The 3-star Ledgowan Lodge Hotel situated just outside Achnasheen (and see also http://www.achnasheen.uk.com/ below) was originally built as a hunting lodge at the start of the last century, but was then converted into a country house hotel retaining most of its original charm and character. The hotel has a functions suite for weddings and other special occasions and there are also conference facilities for up to 40 delegates. Each of the en suite bedrooms still convey the period look with antique wardrobes and dressing tables decorating most rooms, but combining this with a variety of modern amenities including bath with shower, hair dryer, TV with satellite channels, direct dial telephone, and tea and coffee making facilities. And for cognoscenti of fine Scotch, an antique showcase in the reception hall displays an extensive collection of rare malt whiskies.
http://www.ledgowanlodge.co.uk/  

Lochcarron Holidays
A well presented cooperative website and central letting agency for eight holiday properties in Lochcarron, with very full information (and pictures) on all the properties, most of them centrally located on the sea front. The site also offers information about local attractions and amenities.
http://www.lochcarroncottages.co.uk/ 

Lotta Dubh
Lotta Dubh is a modern family run bed & breakfast establishment in Ardaneaskan (6 miles from Lochcarron), set amidst the stunning scenery of Wester Ross. Some rooms overlook the sea and the Cuillin Hills on the Isle of Skye. It is an ideal base for hillwalkers and those wishing to tour the surrounding area.
http://www.lottadubh.co.uk/  

The Old Byre, Arinacrinachd
The Old Byre is located at Arinacrinachd, on the Applecross peninsula (some 15 miles from Applecross on the coast road, or about 17 miles from Torridon), and offers stunning views over Loch Torridon and the mountains beyond. This self-catering accommodation is in a converted country byre and is suitable for up to four people.
http://www.wester-ross.freeserve.co.uk/Torridon/index_1024.html

The Old Manse 
Offers luxury bed and breakfast accommodation in a recently refurbished granite vicarage, enjoying splendid views overlooking Loch Carron. The property is on the outskirts of Lochcarron, but within easy walking distance to the village shop, bank, and other amenities. Accommodation comprises two double bedrooms, two twin bedrooms, and one single ground floor bedroom, all with en suite facilities with toilet and shower or bath, tea/coffee making facilities, and TV. The tariff is £25 per person per night.
http://www.theoldmanselochcarron.com/  

The Potting Shed Café & Restaurant
The Potting Shed Café & Restaurant, in the restored Walled Garden of Applecross House, has recently attracted the attention (and praise) of foodie writers. Less than half a mile from the sea, on the Inner Sound of Raasay in Appelcross, it offers locally caught fish, an abundance of fresh vegetables and fruit sourced directly from its gardens, shellfish caught with their own boat, wild deer and organic lamb from the surrounding hills and crofts, wild mushrooms from the woods, as well as home baking. The Potting Shed Cafe & Restaurant can also provide a highly romantic venue for Highland weddings, and it holds a licence for civil marriage ceremonies.
http://www.eatinthewalledgarden.co.uk/  

The Rockvilla Hotel and Restaurant
Now under new owners Peter and Wendy Bartlett, this small hotel is right next door to Glais Bheinn, offering comfortable accommodation in the centre of the village. The rooms have fine views overlooking the loch and the mountains beyond.  The hotel’s restaurant is "Taste of Scotland" recommended, while regular “Theme evenings”, focusing on Chinese, Italian, and Mexican cuisine, are promised to start in October 2005. Bar meals are served in the lounge bar, which has a wide choice of single malt whiskies, and where traditional real ale, mainly from Scottish breweries, is served. A take-away service is also available.
http://www.rockvilla-hotel.co.uk/

Self-catering Holidays in Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland
Offers two self-catering houses in Lochcarron, and this site has also some very attractive photographs, as well as some information on local history and a short guide to wildlife in the area.
http://lochcarron.net/Default.htm

Stalker's Cottage 
A traditional Highland stone cottage in very quiet rural position just outside Lochcarron, but within a short distance of all the local amenities in the village. This self-catering accommodation sleeps two people, and is situated in open estate land approximately one third of a mile from the main road, enjoying very attractive views of the surrounding mountains.
http://www.stalkers-cottage.co.uk/  

Strathcarron Hotel
Set in a scenic location overlooking Loch Carron - and, if you are visiting by train, very conveniently located next door to Strathcarron railway station on the scenic North Highlands route from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh - the Strathcarron Hotel offers 11 en suite rooms, a restaurant, bar, and beer garden. Its regularly changing menu includes several vegetarian options. The hotel hosts regular live music events and other entertainment.
http://www.strathcarronhotel.co.uk/

Taobh-an-Allt B & B  
Elsa Ward offers comfortable bed and breakfast accommodation in a modern bungalow in a quiet semi-rural position above Lochcarron, but within walking distance from all village amenities. The property is in an elevated position on a south-facing hillside and the two letting rooms enjoy stunning views across Loch Carron, looking towards Attadale and the hills and mountains to the south.
http://www.elsas-bedandbreakfast.co.uk/  

Tigh An Eilean Hotel, Shieldaig 
This small hotel, in an idyllic setting on the shoreline of the picturesque village of Shieldaig on the southern shore of Loch Torridon, was the winner of the 2005 Good Hotel Guide 'Scottish Inn of the Year' award, and its restaurant enjoys a well-deserved reputation for the high quality of its cooking, offering sea food specialities and other local produce. The hotel has 11 en-suite bedrooms, most with sea views. The simple Shieldaig Bar is next door to the hotel and is open to non-residents from 11am daily. It sells beers on tap and a selection of quality wines, teas and coffees, home baking, light meals, and fresh local seafood. Live traditional music on most weekends.
http://www.stevecarter.com/hotel/rest.htm  

Tigh Charran Self Catering Flat, Lochcarron
This brand new, and newly equipped self-catering flat is situated in an elevated, and enviable, position on the south-facing hillside of Lochcarron, offering panoramic views across the loch and the mountains. The property is fully furnished with all the mod cons and provides comfortable accommodation for two people.
http://www.tigh-charrann.co.uk/

Visit-Lochcarron.com
Jim Mould's holiday letting agency with details and photographs of the various properties that the agency looks after (some of which are also represented with individual links in this section). Additionally, the site offers a variety of information about Lochcarron, and things to do and see.
http://www.visit-lochcarron.com/ 

Waterside Apartment, Lochcarron
A self-catering holiday apartment centrally located in the village of Lochcarron, convenient to all local amenities, and with very attractive views across Loch Carron and the hills to the South. It contains three bedrooms and can sleep up to eight people. The site also offers some general information about Lochcarron, places to visit, etc.
http://www.lochcarron-waterside.net/  

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The Kyle railway

Dingwall and Skye Railway
Ewan Crawford’s illustrated history of one section of the Highland Railway, opened in 1862 (then operated as the Inverness and Ross-shire Railways) which originally went as far as Strome Ferry, until it was extended to Kyle of Lochalsh in 1897 (see next entry). The site provides a chronology of the line’s development and a description of the route.
http://www.railscot.co.uk/Dingwall_and_Skye_Railway/frame.htm

Friends of the Kyle Line 
The Kyle line is recognized as one of the world's most scenic railway journeys, from Inverness on the east coast of Scotland through to Kyle of Lochalsh on the west. The Friends of the Kyle Line was originally set up to save this historic railway from threatened closure, and its primary objective today is to protect and ensure a future for one of Scotland's most picturesque railway lines. The site provides a history of the railway and some interesting facts related to it. An arts and crafts shop on the Kyle platform helps to funds the activities of the Friends of the Kyle Line. Also housed in the buildings of Kyle railway station, and well worth a visit, is a Museum of railway memorabilia and an extensive collection of archival photographs.
http://www.kylerailway.co.uk/  

Kyle of Lochalsh Extension-Highland Railway
An illustrated history of the Kyle or Highland Railway’s extension from Stromeferry to Kyle of Lochalsh, which opened in 1897 (see also above entry) with a chronology of its development and a description of the route. Until recently ferries crossed from Kyle to Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, but this has now ceased since the opening of the Skye bridge.
http://www.railscot.co.uk/Kyle_of_Lochalsh_Extension_Railway/frame.htm

North by Northwest. Images of the Highland Railway in Scotland Past and Present
From the Scottish Archive Network, this is an interesting online exhibition that celebrates two of the most picturesque railways in the world, the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line (to Thurso and Wick), and the impact of the Highland Railway on the people, landscape, and economy of the Scottish Highlands.
http://www.scan.org.uk/northbywestmicro/index.htm

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Lochcarron community & local news

Born to be Wild 
An interesting article from the Guardian reporting about the restocking of the river Carron by the Inverness College's Seafield Centre, headed by Bob Kindness. The river Carron flows for some 16 miles through the Wester Ross region that lies between Inverness and Skye, running from Loch Sgamhain down through the scenically dramatic Glenn Carron valley to sea level at Loch Carron. The area used to be prime salmon fishing country until stocks collapsed a decade or so ago, depleted by a growing number of predators such as otters and seals, while others believe that commercial salmon farming in the area and the spread of diseases to wild fish, also contributed to the decline. Despite, reportedly, a measure of scepticism among scientists and environmentalists, considerable progress has been made in bringing back wild salmon and sea trout to the river, and it is hoped that this will ultimately attract more visitors to the area and benefit the local community.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,1309317,00.html 

Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Highlands of Scotland 
This is Lochcarron's premier website, assembled and hosted by Alex Ingram, a TV cameraman and photographer based in the village. It presents a photographic tour of the Lochcarron area - and many places further afield, including photographs from the Applecross peninsula and Skye - through a series of photo galleries and themed pictures, at least one of which changes each month. There is also a "Pic of the day" which changes daily (and for which the complete archive is accessible), together with a variety of Lochcarron news. This is a most attractive site, which offers a nice blend of great photography of the region with pictures and news items of interest to the local community. More than 1,700 images are available here, and an added attraction is that the "Pic of the day" archive now allows searching by date or image description. Search results show the ten most recent pictures relating to the search term.
http://www.lochcarron.tv/ 

Lochcarron. The Pictures of 2000
A selection of the news pictures by local photographer Alex Ingram of the year 2000, taken in and around the Lochcarron area.
http://www.geocities.com/carronnach/2000.html

Sunrise over Attadale 
Another Web page from local photographer Alex Ingram (see also http://www.lochcarron.tv/ above). This is a slide sequence of a spectacular sunrise over Attadale, on the opposite shore of Loch Carron, photographed from Lochcarron village. 
http://www.geocities.com/carronnach/Sunrise.html  

The Wayfarers Project
Set up by the Ross & Cromarty Heritage Society, the Wayfarers Project encourages each of its 36 communities in Ross-shire to provide a multi-media account of life in its community. The results, as they become available, appear on this site, and will eventually be preserved on a CD. Each account is divided into seven broad categories: Environment, Folk, Heritage, Places, Recreations, Societies, Work, and then grouped under a range of sub-topics. This ambitious project is currently still in its early stages and information for some communities is inevitably still quite patchy; and navigation (through a series of pop up menus) could be a bit more user-friendly. Some searches for Lochcarron, under various topics, come up with slightly puzzling or inappropriate results, or without descriptive captions of any kind. Nonetheless, when completed this will be an enormously valuable and rich resource.
http://www.wayfarers.net/

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Maps and weather

Acuweather.com - Lochcarron
US-based international meteorological website that offers an hour-by-hour weather summary and a 5-15 days forecast for the Lochcarron region, as well as sun rise/set and moon rise/set details, RSS feeds, and more.
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=net&zipcode=EUR|UK|UK003|LOCHCARRON| 

BBC Weather - Strathcarron 
Local weather information from the BBC for the Strathcarron/Lochcarron area and other nearby locations in Wester Ross.
It includes a daily and 5 day forecast, providing a summary forecast for each day, maximum and minimum temperatures, wind (mph), visibility, pressure (mb), a sun index chart, and an indication of atmospheric pollution. For each day there are also sunrise and sunset times, and in summer a pollen index is included as well. The forecast is given in Celsius, but can also be viewed in Fahrenheit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2285 

Map of Lochcarron
From Streetmap.co.uk and the Ordnance Survey this is a map of Lochcarron. Each grid square on the map represents 1,000m and the map can be panned in any direction, zoomed out to give a wider view or zoomed in to give a more detailed view. (Note: if the URL below doesn't work go to http://www.streetmap.co.uk/  and enter the IV548YB, or other IV54 postcode into the search box and tick "GB Place").
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=190660&y=839980&z=0&sv=IV548YB&st=2&pc=IV54+8YB
&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf 

Map of Lochcarron
From multimap.com, this is another zoomable map of Lochcarron (Post code IV54 8YB) and neighbouring areas--albeit with misleading "nearest train station" and "motorway junction" information!
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?
pc=IV548YB&GridE=&GridN=&scale=50000
&title=Map+of+Lochcarron+area&cat=des 

Strathcarron/Lochcarron Weather
Yet another website to check out the weather for Strathcarron and Lochcarron (the IV54 Post code). Provided by the Weather Channel, it includes details of current conditions, a daily outlook and forecast, an hour-by-hour and a 10 day forecast, as well as weather maps in motion with a regional satellite picture, regional radar (rain), and a local aerial view.
http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Strathcarron-IV54?fromSearch=true  

Weather - North-West Scotland
From the Met Office, check out the weather forecast for the North-West of Scotland here, including five day forecasts for certain areas, e.g. Portree on the Isle of Skye. From this site you can also access severe weather warnings - or early warnings of severe weather to come - for the whole of the UK, or by region, including the North-West of Scotland. This site enables you to view some interesting weather statistics, for example "Scotland Sunshine (total hours) Areal Series", from 1929 to the present; or you can do the same for Scotland rainfall figures, starting from 1914. The year of 1999 was the worst in terms of rainfall, by a considerable margin. You can similarly track down some statistics that relate to Lochcarron, for example that it enjoyed the highest temperature in the whole of the UK on 17 April 2003, a blistering 26.9 °C, and which was almost matched on June 26 of the same year. Bring back 2003! Less appealing is another statistic from the year 2002 when, on 21 February 2002, Locharron recorded the 6th highest 24hr rainfall in the UK of 66.2mm. (Note: for those interested in weather statistics, check out the informative local community magazine An Carrannach, which includes a Weather Record-Slumbay in each monthly issue, recording maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall in inches for the month, and providing comparative running total figures for the current and previous year)
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/nwscotland.html 

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Outdoor activities & sport

Bealach-na-Ba Challenge
Set in a dramatic landscape, the Bealach-na-Ba (Gaelic, "Pass of the Cattle") is the UK's biggest road climb at 2,053ft (626m) from sea level in just 6 miles or 10km. It is a twisting single-track road with tight hairpin bends and steep gradients of up to 20%, and can be quite treacherous during the winter months, when it is frequently impassable because of heavy snow. The climb starts at Tornapress on the A896, a few miles to the West of Lochcarron, and ends in the isolated village of Applecross (until the late 20th century the Bealach-na-Ba was the only road linking Applecross with the rest of the country). The pass has now become the focus of an annual cycling event open to competitors of all standards and ages (including "fat blokes"), who ride to achieve the best time they can, or simply do it as a challenge, and enjoy the wonderful scenery en route. It is not a race as such - the start is staggered in groups of 100 going off at two minute intervals - although detailed results are published for various categories of starters. The website has the results of the 2006 Challenge, event details, stories and pictures of some of the riders, and maps and details of the route: starting at Kinlochewe near Loch Maree, and from there through Glen Carron to Lochcarron, up the main climb to the Bealach-na-Ba summit and then descend to sea level again at Applecross; thereafter along the winding Applecross peninsula coastal road to Shieldaig, and through spectacular, rugged Glen Torridon mountain country back to the finish at Kinlochewe--a total of 90 miles (143km) and 9,630ft (2,935m) of ascent. The 2006 challenge, which attracted some 500 riders, was a highly successful event, and could well establish itself as a major annual event in Wester Ross in the coming years.
http://bealach-na-ba.co.uk/bealach-na-ba/index.htm

Martin Moran Mountaineering
A Strathcarron-based family-run business offering mountaineering courses, holidays and expeditions in the north-west of Scotland (as well as in the Swiss Alps and the Himalayas).
http://www.moran-mountain.co.uk/

West Highland Hawking  
Offers short courses for both adults and children (12 years and up, supervised by an adult) in the ancient art of flying trained falcons and hawks, either in the form of a two hour 'Hawk Walk' through spectacular hillside or along a loch side, flying the hawk in her own environment; or through a half day course that aims to help you understand the exhilaration of the closeness of these magnificent birds, and at the same time gain an insight into their training and handling techniques. It also offers a five day residential course (at Hill Haven Kinlochewe Bed & Breakfast, see above) for people wishing to take up falconry. 
http://www.westhighlandhawking.com/  

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Pictures and images of Lochcarron & Wester Ross

Google Image Search (Updated November 2008)
If you want to quickly access pictures and images about Scotland, the Highlands, or specific locations in Wester Ross such as Lochcarron or Applecross, Google Image Search is the place to start. Google's Image Search is probably the most comprehensive on the Web, with a staggering 2.2 billion images indexed and available for viewing. Images include all kinds of illustrative material, pictures and photographs, drawings, cartoons, icons, graphics, clip art, maps, posters, magazine covers, as well as pictures of book and record/CD covers, or objects of any kind. It has an astonishing 10,800 images of Lochcarron (29,500 for Gairloch, or Applecross even more, 37,500). However this consists not only of pictures, views, buildings or other objects in these localities, but, in the case of Lochcarron, also images of Loch Carron, Lochcarron tartan and other products from Lochcarron Weavers, pictures of hotels and self-catering properties in Lochcarron, and people and personalities in some ways related with Lochcarron, e.g. the local fire brigade, the Lochcarron Shinty Club, the Golf Club, etc. If you dig deep enough you'll even find pictures of some Lochcarron residents on blogs, and those of have uploaded photographs of themselves on Bebo, Facebook, Flickr and similar interactive social networking sites.

Google Image Search also comes up, for example, with no less than 181,000 images of Haggis of every conceivable kind, but these search results also include pictures of lots of dogs named "Haggis", or Haggis the pet rabbit, the Haggis band, Paul Haggis the Canadian filmmaker, and so on. And a search for the game of "shinty" produces almost 12,000 results, mostly pictures of shinty being played all over the Highlands, team photographs, images of shinty balls and shinty sticks, club logos and emblems, as well as some interesting archival pictures in black and white.

How to use Google Image Search:
Each search result in Google Image Search brings up a series of thumbnail images together with the URL details where the picture is to be found, the file type, the image dimensions, and the file size. Clicking on to the thumbnail will lead to the image viewer interface in a frame. The top part shows the images in a slightly larger but still scaled down version; click on "See full-size image" and the bottom frame will display the image in its original context. This is usually too large to be viewed without scrolling on monitors with a screen area set to 800 x 600 pixels, but you can load the page in a full browser window by clicking on "Remove frame" in the top right-hand corner of the page. You will probably get more results, but also some that will be irrelevant, if you enter search terms without quotation marks. However, looking for images of people that are not well known (i.e. as opposed to people in the news, politicians, celebrities, sports personalities, pop stars and film stars, etc.) it is usually a good idea to enclose the names in double quotation marks.

It is important to understand that Google Image Search searches the text or captions relating to images rather than the images themselves. As with Google Web search, Google Image search is not case sensitive and words can be typed in either lower or upper case. Putting a plus sign in front of search terms (with no space between) instructs Google that these words must appear in the results. This is what Google calls the Inclusion Operator. You can precede two, three or more words with the "+" sign to instruct Google to find images with all these words, rather than all the images (text) with any one of them. For example +lochcarron +shinty reduces the search results to just 312 images, virtually all related to shinty in Lochcarron, but also including some where the words Lochcarron as well as shinty appears on a number of Lochcarron-based websites, for example in descriptions about local facilities, or things to do and see in Lochcarron.

Another example is +Applecross +maelrubha, which generates 132 results, but all more specifically related to St. Maelrubha, this important figure in the founding and early history of Applecross. However, you could also search for images of maelrubha on its own, which produces a slightly larger number of results, a total of 285.

In order to show you the most relevant results, Google omits some entries very similar to the first five or six pages it displays when showing the initial search results. It also uses its sophisticated algorithms to ensure that what it considers to be the highest quality images are presented first in the results, and on the whole this works quite well. Bear in mind though, and as in Google Web search, Google Image search can report tens of thousands or millions of hits for many search queries, but the number of results it displays, and which you can actually view for any query, is usually a maximum of around 800-900 as, in practice, few people will scroll through more than the first few pages of results.

When you use Google Image Search, narrow down your query as much as possible, and limit it to just a few words. The thing to remember is that if you key in more than one term it will search for images related to both or all the terms, but if you put the search terms (or part of the search terms) in double quotation marks it will find images matching only the exact phrase and in the given order. Google Image Search also has sophisticated Advanced Search facilities at http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en, where you can refine your search terms using search operators.

If you want to reproduce images found in Google Image Search be mindful of the fact that most photographs and other images are protected by copyright and should not be reproduced without permission.
http://images.google.com/  


Some other image search tools
While Google Image Search is a marvellous resource, also worth a try for searching images are: Yahoo! Images Search http://images.search.yahoo.com/,  Ask Jeeves Picture Search http://pictures.ask.com/, and the meta search engine Search-22 http://www.search-22.com/downloads/images.php.  A useful collection of image search engines has been assembled by Michael Fagan at http://www.faganfinder.com/img/, covering not only the major search engines, but also image databases for artwork, graphics and clip art, educational images, regional and historical, etc., together with reviews of image search engines.

And then there is Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ for photos and videos posted on the Web and on blogs, etc., uploaded from Web pages, submitted via email, or from camera phones, in order to make them publicly accessible on the Web. Usually organized around a certain theme, Flickr has created a huge photographic community with sharing at its heart, and designed for people to come together around a common interest. A simple search for "Lochcarron", for example, generates some 1,700 results.

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Travel around Wester Ross, and online guides to its scenic beauty and history

Achnasheen, Wester Ross, Scotland
The tiny village of Achnasheen is approximately 42 miles north west of Inverness on the A832 where the road splits for Gairloch or Lochcarron. It sits at the foot of Bheinn Fionn in the wilderness of Strathbran, and to the west of the village, at the head of Loch a Croisg and Ledgowan, there are spectacular reminders of the Ice Age. The site has some views of the village and the area, with links to accommodation. It is a sparsely populated village, and the website tells us that when Queen Victoria visited the NW Highlands in the 1860's she arrived in Achnasheen by train from Inverness, she noted in her journal that apart from the Inn (The Station Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1995) there were only two cottages in the village. There are not many more now-Achnasheen has a population of only 28. and the local primary school has just 9 children.
http://www.achnasheen.uk.com/  

Applecross Historical Society - Comunn Eachdraidh na Comraich
Applecross (18 miles from Lochcarron, over the famous Bealach nam Bo pass) was one of the earliest Christian settlements in Scotland. In the year 673 the Irish Monk Maelrubha founded his Christian settlement on the land between the river and Beinn a'Chlachain. He declared the surrounding area a sanctuary, and even today Applecross is known as A'Chomraich - the Sanctuary. Learn more here about the culture, history, and people of this remote peninsula, including its archaeology, genealogy, and Celtic Christianity. This informative site also provides access to the Newsletter of the Society, and includes details of hotels, guesthouses, bed and breakfasts, self-catering establishments, and camping/caravanning sites. The Society's Applecross Heritage Centre is well worth a visit.
http://www.applecrossheritage.org.uk

The Applecross Peninsula 
Attempts to provide comprehensive information about Applecross, a tranquil and remote peninsula in Wester Ross with some spectacular scenery. The site offers a tour and a brief history of Applecross – one of the earliest Christian settlements in Scotland, founded by the Irish Monk Maelrubha in the year 673 – together with suggestions of things to do and places to visit, and practical information about accommodation, events, etc. In addition to the annual Applecross Games, there is also the famous annual Applecross duck race!
http://www.applecross.info/index.htm  

Celtic Fringe: Your Guide to Wester Ross in North-West Scotland
Produced by the Celtic Fringe Tourism Association, this is probably the most complete guide to the scenic beauty of the Wester Ross. There is a great deal of practical information how to travel around the region, which is described as “a land of lochs and mountains, rich in myths and legends. A land where you can fill your lungs with intoxicating fresh air and bath your eyes in the clarity of the pure atmosphere. A land of stunning scenery. A land of constantly changing weather conditions, where you can witness rain, snow and sunshine all in the same day.” The Celtic Fringe site also offers good travel and transport information, including bus and railway timetables.
http://www.celticfringe.org.uk/

Eilean Donan Castle 
Eilean Donan Castle, a short distance away from Lochcarron and near Kyle of Lochalsh, must be one of Scotland's most photographed monuments-and adorning many a biscuit tin of shortbread! The original castle was built in 1230 by Alexander II to protect ithe area from marauding Vikings. Several centuries later it became a Jacobite stronghold, but was destroyed by English warships in 1719 and abandoned in ruins after the bombardment. It was not until 1912 when work to restore it started, and completed in 1932 following 20 years of reconstruction. Today it attracts a very large number of visitors who can explore almost every part of the Castle from its banqueting hall to the bedrooms, as well as a recreated kitchen. Open all year, it includes a visitor centre, gift and coffee shop. 
http://www.eileandonancastle.com/  

Gairloch Online 
A well-organized local portal providing extensive information about Gairloch for tourists, businesses and the local community. Gairloch (about 50 miles from Lochcarron) is made up of the villages and hamlets around Loch Gairloch from Red Point - which has a wonderful secluded beach - in the southwest to the Rua Reidh Lighthouse in the north. The site provides a short history of Gairloch, information about things to do and places to see, as well as including a photo gallery and virtual Gairloch tour. The site also offers the rather intriguing "A tale of two rivers" drawn from New Scientist magazine, in which a reader asked "In the north-west of Scotland there is a place where a river divides. Part of the water from Loch na h-Oidhche flows into Loch Gairloch and part flows into Loch Maree... How can this happen? Surely the water will always flow in the direction of steepest descent and this direction is unique at every point?" Read the tale to find an explanation for this historical puzzle! 
http://www.gairloch.co.uk/ 

Glenelg-Kylerhea  Skye Ferry
While the much disputed tolls on the Skye Bridge - opened in 1995 to replace the Kyle of Lochalsh ferry - have now been abolished and you can cross the bridge at no charge, there is a more adventurous, more scenic, and rather more romantic way to travel "over the sea to Skye". This is via Glenelg and by the ancient ferry route from Glenelg to Kylerhea, although it operates during the summer months only (from April to late September; dates vary check website). Formerly operated by Roddy Macleod, the Glenachulish – a small puffer, reputed to be the last manually operated turntable ferry in the world – was recently acquired by the local community, the Isle of Skye Ferry Community Interest Company, with the support of a cash grant awarded by the National Lottery. The ferry, which can carry only six cars at a time with standing-room only for foot passengers, is now one of only two remaining ferries crossing the sea to Skye (the other is the publicly subsidized CalMac route between Mallaig and Armadale.) The Glenachulish takes just 5 minutes to cross to or from Skye; the ferry crosses every 15 minutes when busy and every 30 minutes when quiet, from early morning to evening (cost £8.50 for per car for a single crossing, with up to four passengers; foot passengers pay £1, cyclists £1.50). The ferry sails from a remote stone jetty—the same departure point used by James Boswell and Doctor Johnson when they set sail for Skye during their famous "Tour to the Hebrides" in 1773. Instructions how to reach Glenelg and the ferry departure point are included on the site. Glenelg is reached by a scenic ten mile route from Shiel Bridge, over the Mam Ratagan pass, and with fine views of the Five Sisters of Kintail mountain range. From Kylerhea a single-track road through Glen Arroch connects to the main Broadford to Kyleakin road on Skye.
http://www.skyeferry.co.uk/   

Highland Gems. A Jewel in Wester Ross
An illustrated tour around Wester Ross, through Lochcarron, Shieldaig, the dramatic Torridon mountains, and the Applecross peninsula, including the famous Bealach na Ba (The Pass of the Cattle), with its narrow twisting road climbing steeply to over 2,200 ft.
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/jewel.htm

Loch Ewe Action Forum. Guide to the Loch Ewe Area of Wester Ross
A useful site providing a variety of information about the area, including travel pages, outdoor activities, accommodation, items about local history and culture, and a guide to living and working in the Wester Ross area.
http://www.highlandwelcome.co.uk/  

On the Road in North-West Scotland 
This is an amazing site (also offered in German), by self-styled “mad tourist” Frederik Ramm, who strapped a camera and a GPS* to his Land Rover, and went on a journey through North-West Scotland and Wester Ross and shot some 6,000 photographs in the process, although “only” 2,968 of them have made it on to this website. The pictures were taken from a moving vehicle, and this is combined with providing detailed map data. The Web interface used allows you to see what the camera saw while the photographer was driving along. All this is brought together as 165 individual journeys, which can be selected either from a place index and a clickable map, from a journey table, or through a search facility. After you pick a journey you will then be shown a succession of photos taken while driving along that route, together with a map indicating your “current position”, presenting you with a constantly changing picture as you “drive” along the route. Photos were taken every 30-60 seconds on average, and which translates into approximately one photo every 500-1000 meters. The site – which works best with Java – allows you to adjust the playback speed, either slower or faster. You can also zoom in on any image by right-clicking each photo, enlarging it to full screen size (albeit static in this format).
http://www.remote.org/frederik/roadhog/scotland/
*PS: Frederik Ramm seems to assume that everybody knows about GPS’s (an abbreviation for the Global Positioning System, a worldwide navigational and surveying system based on the reception of signals from orbiting satellites), but for those who are interested to learn more about the GPS, click on to  http://www.trimble.com/gps/

Plockton Web 
A National Conservation Trust village located on a sheltered bay of Loch Carron, Plockton is a picturesque small village that achieved a measure of fame in the  mid-1990s when the BBC chose it as a setting for the television drama series Hamish Macbeth. The site provides a guide to the village, and practical information about accommodation, eating out, activities, and more.
http://www.plockton.com/

Poolewe.Camusnagaul.com  
This gateway offers a wide variety of tourist information about the Camusnagaul/Dundonnell, Poolewe, Ullapool, Aultbea, Loch Ewe, Loch Maree, and Little Loch Broom area in Wester Ross, including B&B accommodation, hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, things to do and places to see, maps, wildlife in the area, and more. There is also a doggie blog by Charlie the sheep dog, who says "I can honestly say that Camusnagaul is the best place for dogs to come on holiday".
http://www.poolewe.camusnagaul.com/  

Strome Castle
A short guide to Strome Castle, the ruins of which can be found a few miles outside Lochcarron on the road to Ardaneaskan. Originally built in the 14th century as part of the Earldom of Ross, it was later held by the MacDonalds of Glengarry, but was 
blown up by the maurauding MacKenzies of Kintail in 1602. While there is not much left of the Castle (and the site seems rather neglected), there are some wonderful views here looking towards Skye and the Cuillin mountains.
http://www.aboutscotland.com/tour/strome/castle.html  

Torridon and Shieldaig in the Western Highlands of Scotland 
Developed and maintained by photographer and composer Steve Carter, this is a most attractive and information-rich website, providing a wealth of information about the Torridon area of the Western Highlands - consisting of Loch Torridon and the smaller Loch Shieldaig - an area well known to climbers, photographers, wildlife enthusiasts, hikers, and visitors from around the world, and for what is rightly considered to be some of the finest scenery in Europe. There is a good map, and some marvellous photographs of the area, including pictures of wildlife. There are separate pages devoted to woodland management, the Shieldaig Sea Trout Project, the dreaded Highland midge (and how to avoid being bitten by them!), a section on commonly seen birds, and a feature about the endearing Pine Martens that can often be seen in the area. Additionally, the site offers access to a variety of local information on accommodation and travel (including local bus services), local news, a Webcam, and more. There is also splendid photo gallery where you can right click on the larger image and 'Set as background' on your PC (Windows users only). Photos are now also available on this site as a free Windows screen saver (for maximum effect you will need to set your screen area/resolution to 1024x768 pixels). For more stunning photography by Steve Carter visit his home page at http://www.stevecarter.com/. 
http://www.stevecarter.com/sh.htm  

Torridon Mountains Web - Wester Ross
A short guide to the Kinlochewe, Loch Maree and Torridon area with some information on its biodiversity and its heritage, together with practical information on what to do and where to stay, a "What's on" section, and links to local businesses and services.
http://www.torridon-mountains.com/ 

Walk Highlands - Torridon Walks: Gairloch to Strathcarron 
This is a sub-section of the Walk Highlands website, a comprehensive online guide to walks and the outdoors for the Highlands of Scotland. The focus of the area covered by these particular pages is Torridon, with its magnificent sandstone mountains that make the region famous, as are the beauties of Loch Torridon itself, a fjord, and Loch Maree, perhaps the most picturesque of all Scotland's freshwater lochs. South of Torridon are Applecross and Lochcarron, and to the north is Gairloch, an area that that has long been famous for its many fine sandy beaches, many of them still unfrequented. Very attractively presented, information is grouped under four areas: (1) Gairloch and Poolewe walks, (2) Torridon walks: Shieldaig to Kinlochewe, (3) Glen Carron walks: Loch Carron to Achnasheen, and (4) Applecross walks. For each section there is an opening menu displaying the different walks and showing route, grade of walk (indicated by little walking boots icons) distance and time; clicking on to any of them leads to fuller information and descriptions of each walk, accompanied by photographs. For each walk there is also a route profile, comments on terrain and "bog factor", maps with grid references (to view as a OS map extract, or buy), public transport facilities, accommodation facilities en route, and more. Almost all the routes are now available as free QUO digital mapping/route downloads for GPS, or as GPX downloads.
http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/  

Visit Highlands.com - Wester Ross 
The Wester Ross pages of the comprehensive VisitHighlands.com site. Includes suggestions of things to do in the area and places to visit, links to Wester Ross websites, useful publications and maps, and from this site you can also search for accommodation in the area.
http://www.visithighlands.com/northern-scottish-highlands/westerross/  

Wester Ross
People from the Netherlands are frequent visitors to Wester Ross, and this Dutch site by Teun Kees describes a trip (accompanied by photographs) through the Wester Ross area from Ullapool to the Kyle of Lochalsh, through Gairloch, Torridon, the Applecross peninsula, over the Bealach na Bá pass, and through Lochcarron.
http://home.planet.nl/~kees0584/engwross.htm

Wester Ross. Jewel of the Highlands
This site, by photographer Steve Carter, is designed to give a flavour, through images and text, of the beautiful Wester Ross area, now generally recognized to be one of Europe’s last wilderness.
http://www.stevecarter.com/wr.htm

Wester Ross – North West Scottish Highland
The Wester Ross pages of the excellent Internet Guide to Scotland, with links to hotels and self-catering holiday cottages, local online guides, and more.
http://www.scotland-info.co.uk/wester-ross.htm

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