Discover where to see wild dolphins up close in Scotland with our complete guide to Chanonry Point. Learn the best times to visit, what to expect, and why this Black Isle location offers some of the closest shore-based dolphin encounters in the UK.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie may have crossed a continent, and he finished his days quietly in a Highland village. This blog explores his extraordinary life, his legacy in both Canada and Avoch, and the stories—celebrated and complex—that he left behind.
Hidden in a quiet fold of the Black Isle, the Clootie Well of Munlochy is no ordinary woodland spring. With trees draped in weathered cloth and curious offerings, this sacred place carries the echoes of an ancient world where healing, hope, and spiritual belief intertwined. Long before Christianity arrived, people made pilgrimages to such wells, seeking cures through rituals now barely remembered — but still practised, in curious modern forms, to this day.