Tag: Canna

Arisaig 2026 8: The Grounds of Canna House

Continuing my account of my Scottish holiday with a look at the grounds of Canna House.

My most recent post in this series about my Scottish holiday (May 30th to June 6th) covered the outbound voyage to Canna, which was run as a wildlife cruise. This post now deals with the only special activity we had time for on the island.

CANNA HOUSE

Canna House is now owned by the National Trust. One can only go into the house if one books a tour, which we did not have time for. The grounds however are freely accessible, and feature a lot of interesting stuff. The gardens feature a lot of food plants, and there is some interesting historical stuff to be seen as well.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Here are the photographs for this post…

This was the first of a number of ‘information trays’ that found within….
…this structure, which challenged visitors to look inside in a way that I just had to respond to.
Ancient stonework preserved in the grounds of Canna House (three pictures)
An excellent view of the front of Canna House.

Arisaig 2026 3: Minke Whale Lights up Canna Cruise

A post dedicated to a Minke Whale sighting during today’s ‘Canna Puffin Cruise’, where I was doubly lucky: 1) to be on it at all and 2) to manage to get photographs of the whale.

Earlier today I had the good fortune to go on today’s “Canna Puffin Cruise” during the course of which a Minke whale appeared above the waves on a few occasions, and I captured the evidence on camera. What follows is a short series of pictures…

The first, less good picture:

In the front of this shot part of the rump of Minke whale can be seen just above the surface of the water. Nearby two tiny puffins look on. This was somewhere between Mallaig and Canna.
Close up extracted from the first picture showing the whale rump and the two puffins looking on.
The mid-portion of a Minke whale including the dorsal fin appears above the sea somewhere between Mallaig and the Isle of Canna. Unedited original.
A closer crop showing the whale and a cliff in the distance.
Edited version of the above picture
A different edit of the same picture
Another crop
An edited version of the second crop
A different edit of the same crop

Another crop

An edited version of the final crop.

An edited version of the final crop.

I will be producing more posts about this day, including a ‘wildlife highlights package’, but just to get things started I have opted to give the Minke whale a post all to itself.