Araucaria Croft Skye Luxury Accommodation

18/11/2024

We’re going to run some posts from a lovely old album that we have titled ‘Some Old Skye Inns’.
Tayinloan Inn is pictured here, “this is the second site, the first was on the old turnpike and the third in the lodge behind it”
1953

15/11/2024

01/11/2024

This is what we used to carve a face into on Halloween, I don't think I'd ever seen a pumpkin until I was in my 20s 🤣

Anyway, I'll be looking at the Halloween forecast shortly for those out guising tonight.

Yes, for those who don't know, we don't do trick or treat here, that's an American thing, along with the pumpkin carving.

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31/10/2024

Happy Halloween🎃 The boys have guised the night away 👻 Oidhche Shamhna shona dhuit

20/10/2024

We will be continuing to serve our popular Sunday Lunch throughout the winter months

2 courses 18.95, 3 courses 24.95

09/10/2024

My soon to be 7 year old still loving the rainbows 🌈 so requested a 3D rainbow this year 🤩🌈🌈🌈

09/10/2024

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Calum's Road is a remarkable tale from the Isle of Raasay, part of the Highlands of Scotland. The road is named after Calum Macleod, a lighthouse keeper, crofter, and postman who lived on the island. After years of failed lobbying for a road to be built to the isolated village of Arnish, Calum decided to take matters into his own hands. He wanted to reverse the depopulation of the north of Raasay and make it easier for his daughter to come home from the Isle of Skye for the weekend.
In the mid-1960s, Calum began his decade-long labor of love. With an engineering manual, shovel, pick, and wheelbarrow in hand, he almost singlehandedly constructed the stunning stretch of island infrastructure that now bears his name. This 1.75-mile stretch of single-track road was driven with limited assistance across a harsh and windswept landscape of bogs and boulders.
By the time Calum finished his road, he was in his late 60s and, along with his wife, was one of the last two inhabitants of Arnish. The amateur-built thoroughfare was finally adopted and surfaced by the local council in 1982. A memorial cairn to Calum and his legendary determination now stands at a picnic site above the road.
Over time, Calum’s road has entered into folklore, being the subject of books, films, documentaries, and even an increasingly popular Scottish folk tune. Calum's Road is a testament to one man's single-minded determination to challenge the powers-that-be. It's a story of resilience, determination, and a man's love for his island home.
Shout out to Cormac Mullally for this amazing story!

21/09/2024

The morning haar on the Misty Isle
Pure, unadulterated silence 🤫😍☁️

01/09/2024

Beautiful moody sky fro the Hideaway today 😍

23/08/2024

Dun Beag at Struan, Skye.
Between 1914 and 1920, Dun Beag was excavated by Countess Hanna von Etinghausen, the daughter of an Austrian Baron. She had married Norman MacLeod the 25th Chief. He died in 1895 and she re-married Count Vincent Baillet de Latour. Both she and her new husband continued to spend summers in Skye living at the house known as ‘The Beehive’ at Uiginish. My mother remembered the couple working at Dun Beag. The objects which were recovered, suggested permanent occupation during Iron Age times, bone implements, glass beads, pottery and a steatite lamp as well as arrowheads and combs. Dun Beag is the best preserved of all Skye’s twenty or so brochs, although less elaborate defensive duns are much more numerous.

08/08/2024

If you are looking for something very Scottish then you have to get yourselves to The Old Inn tonight for our Thursday Trad Session with Peter Morrison & Seumas MacLennan. Lot's of up-tempo west coast tunes that are guaranteed to get you going! Dancing is encouraged 🕺💃😀 Music start at around 9pm.

31/07/2024

Beautiful sky from the Coach House cabin today 🌤️ Our guests just love waking up to this view from the comfort of their 4 poster bed 🛌

27/07/2024

The fridge was empty this morning 😬 but a trawl around the Croft and a trip on the boat 🚤 and we have dinner 🎣 and pudding 🫐🍓 and the boys learnt to gut their first fish 🐟 !