Ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, crossing the Minch, Scotland, 6th May 2017
Ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, crossing the Minch, looking north, Scotland, 6th May 2017
Minch Rescue
Footage of the H.M. Coastguard performing exercises with the M.V. Loch Seaforth in The Minch, Outer Hebrides.
Stornoway to Ullapool and on to Dumfries - ScotVlog2017 Episode 6
Road trip from the Isle of Lewis to Dumfries and Galloway, crossing the Minch aboard the CalMac Ferries Loch Seaforth from Stornoway to Ullapool.
Places to see in ( Stornoway - UK )
Places to see in ( Stornoway - UK )
Stornoway is a town on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Stornoway is an important port and the major town and administrative centre of the Outer Hebrides. Stornoway is home to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles Council) and a variety of educational, sporting and media establishments. Observance of the Christian Sabbath (Sunday) has long been an aspect of the island's culture. Recent changes mean that Sunday on Lewis now more closely resembles Sunday on the other Western Isles or the mainland of Scotland.
Stornoway is also the public transport hub of Lewis, and buses run to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and Tarbert, Harris. These buses are provided by the Comhairle and several private operators as well as some community-run organisations.
Suggestions for the possibility of an undersea tunnel linking Lewis and Harris to the Scottish mainland were raised in early 2007. One of the possible routes, between Stornoway and Ullapool, would be over 40 miles (60 km) long and hence become the longest road tunnel in the world.
Stornoway Airport is located next to the village of Melbost, 2 miles (3 km) away from the town itself. From here services operate to Aberdeen, Benbecula, Edinburgh, Inverness and Glasgow, with flights from Flybe franchisee Loganair & Eastern Airways. The airport is also the base of an HM Coastguard Search & Rescue Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, and was previously home to RAF Stornoway. In 1898, the Hebridean Light Railway Company was proposed, with a terminus at Stornoway, but the line was never constructed.
Notable buildings in Stornoway include:
Stornoway Town Hall
The Lewis War Memorial
The neo-gothic Lews Castle
( Stornoway - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Stornoway . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Stornoway - UK
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Ullapool in Scotland
This video shows a very good place to go for a walk in the mainland of Scotland. The landscapes there are beautiful and on the top of the mountain, we have an overview of Ullapool. I arrived there by the CalMac ferry from Outer Hebrides.
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Queen Mary 2 - around the British Isles to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the QM2. North Minch - Between Scotland and the Isle of Lewis.
Rough sea between Stornoway and Ullapool
Rough sea between Stornoway and Ullapool in summer 2015.
Ullapool to Stornoway aboard CalMac Loch Seaforth -ScotVlog2017 Ep 8
All aboard the CalMac Ferries mv Loch Seaforth on a cold and sleety April day in 2017. The journey to Ullapool, checking in, boarding, and the voyage on a breezy day. The Loch Seaforth is one of Caledonian MacBrayne's newest ferries and plies the route to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
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Glasgow to Stornoway, March 18, 2015
The Change Agent from Papua, Indonesia - with flybe landing at Stornoway Airport 'Port-adhair Steornabhaigh' .. March 18, 2015
visit to ullapool
ullapool final stop on tour of the western isles--music--seo linn---------------oro se do bheatha bhalie (irish gealic)
Flight Stornoway to Inverness over the Scottish Highlands and the Minch
Flight from Stornoway, Isle of Lewis to Inverness over the Minch and the Highlands, Scotland.
Ullapool to Stornoway. .
A day excursion [May 2008] to the largest and most northerly of the Outer Hebridean Islands, Lewis; from Ullapool to Stornoway by Calmac on a calm still hot day.
Soundtrack: WISHBONE ASH - 'Persephone'; this version from the Past and Present Live.
There's a light that shines on Persephone,
Always a fire in her eyes,
And the last time that I went to her
I could tell things weren't right.
I just don't care to see your years go wasting,
There's no longer magic in your eyes.
In your time, you could outshine everybody else around,
But your off-stage ways might be a bore -
You take a bow, you take a fall.
I came to be here in the footlights,
To live with you through every song,
And your face displays a peaceful field.
I can't believe the curtain has to fall.
Now I know your years were never wasted,
Tonight I saw the magic in your eyes.
It was in 888 that King Harald of Norway added the Hebrides to his Crown - hence the existing Norse place-names of Lewis, Harris, Uist etc all of which derive from those sea-roving Vikings. This video captures the sailing to Lewis from Ullapool.
On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society - and was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still perhaps the focal point of the town and is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries, as in this video, sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.
Many of the pivotal discoveries of the Victorian era that contributed to the development of the concept of plate tectonics were made in this area, and there are still regular international geological conferences! Others, of course, visit here for the scenery, hillwalking and the Seaforth, FBI and the Arch!!! Not to mention those amazing breakfasts in the local cafe!
Ullapool is surrounded us on all four sides by mountains and contains some of the most beautiful unspoiled scenery in the world with undiscovered beaches, forests, hidden glens with stags grazing, waterfalls, bird sanctuaries to explore, breathtaking twisty single track roads, all warmed by the gulf stream that gives it the tropical garden look with the comparably mild weather. It really has its own micro-climate. Boat trips depart to the enchanting Summer Isles as does a power boat trip that is highly recommended [watch the other video - Seascape adventure]; see seals and porpoises or marvel at the botanists miracle of Hydroponics in Achiltibuie.
From his 1920 writings 'The Land of the Hills and the Glens' author Seton Gordon in a chapter regarding 'Winter Birds on the Shore of the Minch' , writes thus: -
Across the waters of the Minch there stand the hills of Lewis, and there can be seen the entrance to Stornoway Harbour, a good forty miles distant, with the rounded hills that guard the port. Away beyond the entrance to the two lochs - Loch Broom and Little Loch Broom - there stands, perhaps twenty miles to the northward, the wild headland of Rudha Stoer, with its lighthouse, built high above the waters of the Minch. Even at this great distance one can see through the glass of a clear winter's day the spray rising high on the rocks as the swell from the north-west breaks, with the full force of the Atlantic, on this exposed headland.
Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway, and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Our sailing on this occasion was a (pedestrian) non-landing one, so it would be nice to return again, this time for the ascent of the 799m 'Rocky Hill' Corbett, An Clisham (Clisham). The oldest rock in the Highlands is the Lewisian gneiss from which the hills of Harris have been carved.
From his 1921 'Wanderings of a Naturalist' Seton Gordon describes it thus:- On the Island of Harris are many hills, and the highest of them all is Clisham, which reaches an altitude of 2,622ft. And from the summit concludes on a clear day St.Kilda can be seen, the distance being roughly sixty miles.
From his 1923 writings 'Hebridean Memories':
Fom the lone shieling of the misty island
Mounains divide us, and the waste of seas -
But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides
A spring day in the Minch 3
Western Isles Ferry from Stornoway to Ullapool.
Road to the Hebrides - ScotVlog2017 Episode 4
Along the A87, over the Skye Bridge, through the Cuillins, to the port of Uig in the Isle of Skye. Over the Minch aboard CalMac Ferries' mv Hebrides to Tarbert in the Isle of Harris, before drive up to the Isle of Lewis with a stop at Loch Seaforth.
'Tha e math a bhith beò' is Scottish Gaelic for 'It is good to be alive', a line from the song that accompanies, 'Latha Math' by Mànran featuring Norrie MacIver.
Before that we heard 'Tillidh mi' by the same group Mànran, and staring off the journey is 'Going Home' performed by the Skipinnish Cèilidh Band (one P, two Ns)
Links to the artists and the music:
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Sailing from Ullapool, Loch Broom
This wee movie shows the start of the voyage from Ullapool to Stornoway, as the ferry steams its way westwards along Loch Broom towards the Summer Isles and the Minch.
Corbetts 2012: CANISP.
From Ullapool to Ledmore junction then Loch Awe car-park from where a path descends into the marsh and bog before hitting stony ground then boulderfields on the ascent to this fantastic twin cairned Coigach summit with views to die for. Coigach and Assynt collectively contain, it could be said, perhaps the most dramatic mountains in the United Kingdom. The landscape most certainly is. Historically, Coigach formed the north-west tip of the old county of Ross and Cromarty and means fifth part, derived from an old custom of dividing land into five parts.
The isolated Canisp mountain stands in the Glencanisp Forest, a large rock and water wilderness. As seen in this video, the lower slope of the mountain has large surface areas of gneiss, one of the oldest rocks in the world, visible underfoot. As also seen in this video, Canisp is in the strange situation of being eclipsed by its nearby famous smaller neighbour! Canisp stands in a geologically important area: it is part of the Moine Thrust Belt and rises from a base of Lewisian Gneiss being composed of Torridonian sandstone capped by Cambrian quartzite giving the hill a distinctive light grey crown.
A particular guidebook dismisses the cairns on the stony approach of this steep sided ascent but they shouldn't be totally dismissed as they are well aligned and can be of assistance, particularly in descent. Although this is the shortest and quickest approach, this route it is still 6km long, almost completely devoid of paths and defended by stones, boulders, heather and bog! The initial path leads to a bridge over the River Loanan and passes by Loch Gruagaich before the real ascent begins - but eventually the striking 612m Stac Pollaidh (see prior video) a mountain in the final stages of erosion, appears in the distant rugged terrain. Stac Pollaidh lacks the protection of a quartzite cap with the result that its sandstone peaks and towers are weathering.
The view from the cairned 'rooms' at the top of Canisp are fantastic and certainly not to be missed so it is really only worth doing this Corbett in clear weather. The 731m non-Corbett Suilven ('the pillar'), favourite of artists, photographers and poets and possibly the most instantly recognisable mountain in the United Kingdom and affectionately referred to as the Grey Castle (as well as 'the Matterhorn of the North'!), steals the show. Pennant referred to it as 'Sugar Loaf Mountain' although Seton Gordon appears to have corrected that to 'Pillar Fell' or 'Pillar Hill'. The northeasterly view from Canisp summit presents an 'Inselberg' or 'Island Mountain' of Torridonian sandstone that is Suilven, while the surrounding sea of Lewisian Gneiss completes the picture.
If anyone knows what the stone circle design on the Canisp hillside-overlooking Suilven (as seen on this video) represents then please add a comment -- that would be appreciated, thanks. Both Canisp and Suilven rise from a tableland of Lewisian Gneiss and the views of the triple peaked Graham, Suilven, are the reward for anyone who makes the effort to summit this 847m 'white hill or can-shaped roof' Corbett and Marilyn. The view from the top of the mountain is regarded as one of the finest in Scotland giving all round views taking in the surrounding loch studded moorland, The Minch beyond Lochinver and most of the well known mountain peaks of Assynt.
[all pictures and text roddymck May 2012].
Arriving in Ullapool on MV Isle of Lewis HD
Sailing into Ullapool from Stornoway on Caledonian MacBrayne's MV Isle of Lewis with reflections in Loch Broom over the buildings on West Shore Street with arrival announcement. Filmed with Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 / DMC-ZS3 in HD
Lochbroom FC v Fortrose FC 21 July 2012
Ullapool team Lochbroom FC meet Black Isle foes Fortrose FC in this Ross-shire League game in Ullapool. The first encounter between the teams this season ended in a 2-2 draw, and another tight contest was anticipated...
Lochbroom FC are sponsored by The Arch Inn, Ullapool A great place to celebrate success and mourn disasters. The Lochbroom team can be found there after games, before games and often when there aren't any games. They are always willing to pose for photos and sign match programmes & body parts in return for a pint of An Teallach Ale.
Soundtrack : Let's get it started and I gotta feeling : Black Eyed Peas. Get these songs on itunes
The flight home to Stornoway
The flight home from Glasgow to Stornoway