Cape Farewell Scottish Islands Expedition 2011

Cape Farewell – we know what to do, can art help us get on and do it?

The following is an excerpt from Sara Parkin’s article found on the Forum for the Future website. …I was fortunate enough to join the crew for one week of a four week tour of Scottish Islands, starting with Skye and Canna before crossing the Minch to Mingulay, Barra and South Uist. The weather was kind,... Read more ›

By Sara Parkin
25 August 2011, 9:35am
Tags: climate change, sea, sustainability, wildlife

Islands and Visions

There is a sea view when travelling from Eigg to Mallaig where you have a 360° vision of the Small Isles, Skye, the mountains of Scotland, Mull and, far into the distance, the Outer Hebrides. At 6 am yesterday the grey of the sea bled into the numerous blues of the mountains all dramatised by... Read more ›

By David Buckland
13 August 2011, 2:17pm
Tags: adaptation, architecture, artist, climate change, resources, scientists, sea, wildlife

Annie Cattrell and Jo Shapcott in conversation about week 4 of the expedition

JS Annie, what is it about islands? AC I like the fact that there’s a larger proportion of sea than land mass visible. There appears to be a completeness and self-sufficiency about the individual islands even though they are all distinctly different. There seems to be a big distinction between uninhabited and inhabited islands –... Read more ›

By Jo Shapcott
13 August 2011, 8:40am
Tags: sea, storm, weather, wildlife

Narrative as one member of a wee expedition

I’ve put some kit in my rucksack. There’s a camera and a phone charged up but I don’t feel much like sorting the spaghetti of leads in and out of video cameras and recording gear. There’s also no need to take the navigation box. Someone else is doing the driving this trip. i catch the... Read more ›

By Ian Stephen
29 July 2011, 1:36pm
Tags: journey, sea

Plankton sampling over the Mingulay cold water coral reef

After the excitement of the basking sharks in the bay at Mingulay we head out East again to deeper water, to the area of the cold water coral reef. I’ve been asked to take a plankton sample for a scientist who’s working in Dr Kate Darling’s lab at the Grant Institute in Edinburgh University. During... Read more ›

By Anne Bevan
27 July 2011, 10:13am
Tags: marine, research, science, sea

Conservation in the Sound of Barra and East Mingulay

In 2000, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) proposed the designation of the Sound of Barra as a marine Special Area of Conservation (mSAC) to protect sandbanks and seals. This was followed, in 2008, by a SNH proposal to designate an mSAC in the waters east of Mingulay (a smaller uninhabited island lying to the south of... Read more ›

By Ruth Brennan
26 July 2011, 12:03pm
Tags: marine, sea, sustainability

Tobermory waiting

Tobermory; waiting for the wind to come and then (hopefully) go so we can leave the Bay and head Small Isles-ward. Waiting isn’t bad though – a chance to chat, eat, chat some more. Is climate change happening? Is it man-made? Maybe it doesn’t matter if it is or it isn’t; if people’s lives are... Read more ›

By Lucy Conway
18 July 2011, 2:29pm
Tags: adaptation, artist, climate change, mull, sea

Domesticity

I made a pact with myself last night. After spending the day seriously regretting my morning decision to not wash my hair on my one day in two that I can use Song of the Whales shower facilities, I told myself to make the most of the biodegradable washing soap that I have brought with... Read more ›

By Libby Straughan
17 July 2011, 3:37pm
Tags: journey, resources, sea

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