Araucaria Croft Skye Luxury Accommodation

03/01/2025

Bliadhna mhath ùr from ! We were greeted by some incredible Northern Lights for New Year’s Day. What a great way to start 2025, with good pals under the haze of the aurora borealis ✨🎆🎇

24/12/2024

Fasgadh village shop Xmas opening hours Logs & coal available here 🪵 🔥

24/12/2024

Local vegan fruit & veg shop Xmas opening hours

23/12/2024

Wesołych Wigilia & Merry Christmas from ❄️ Making pierogi by candlelight 🕯️ 🥟 and feeling pretty festive 🎄. Going to take a looong time cooking 180 of them on a gas burner one by one though 😂. Hoping the power comes back on soon 💡

23/12/2024

Fruit & Nut Place opening hours in dunvegan

22/12/2024

✉️ If you’re sending post this Christmas, spare a thought for the historical residents of the remote Scottish island archipelago of St Kilda, who sometimes sent letters to the mainland using 'mailboats' like this one in our collection.

✉️ Consisting of a crudely carved boat with a compartment for a letter, it uses a sheep's bladder as a flotation device.

✉️ St Kilda is only about 100 miles from the Scottish mainland, but could be largely inaccessible for months due to rough seas. When in need of assistance, these devices could be launched in the hope that they would be discovered and opened. Left to the mercy of the Atlantic, mail could end up in Iceland or Scandinavia.

✉️ The isolated lifestyle of the inhabitants of St Kilda became increasingly unsustainable and in 1930 the last of the islanders were voluntarily evacuated, leaving behind a unique Gaelic-speaking culture that had subsisted largely on the islands' massive population of seabirds (We encourage you to look up the fascinating history of the St Kildans).

✉️Visitors to St Kilda have made a tradition of continuing to send these 'mailboats'. In 2020, some children on a beach in northern Norway discovered an example containing postcards, that had been cast out to sea 10 years before to mark the 80th anniversary of the evacuation. It had travelled 1,000 miles over that period.

21/12/2024

Get yourselves down for some tunes and festive vibes tonight with the amazing Neil Ewart on fiddle and Ewan MacPherson on guitar. Food served up to 8pm and tunes will start soon after. 🎄🤶🍻💃🏿🕺Beds available for a bargain £20 per person for anyone wanting to stay over. Come on and join in the fun!!!

14/12/2024

HOGMANAY HOOLIE CELEBRATIONS! 🎉🥳

We are running 2 events this year, so there is something for everyone.

Portree Community Centre-Family Ceilidh-BYOB from 8.30 to 10.30pm. £6 for over 16s and under 16s Free. All under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Book tickets online and then pay cash on the door please.
Ticket link for ceilidh in the community hall is here👇

https://buytickets.at/lightupportreecommunityeventsgroup

Then it is down to Somerled Square for Hoolie in the square from 11pm till late with our friends Radio Skye. FREE entry-donations welcome. All under 18s must be accompanied on site by a responsible adult. No glass containers please.

We hope to see you all somewhere on the night for lots of ceilidh dancing fun as we gather together to bring in 2025.🎉🥳🍾🎇🎆

12/12/2024

A certain special someone is turning double figures tomorrow 😬😭 so I had to make him an extra special cake. His love for music 🎵 & nature 🌷 shines through, so I decided to make a cake to match ❤️ Only took a kilo of buttercream 🤣 🎂

28/11/2024

28/11/2024

What better to wake up to on Christmas morning than a wee marag! Get your orders in by the 16th of December for the last Christmas post. Giftwrap available online, website link in bio

28/11/2024

28/11/2024

After the snow and frost this week, we were greeted by a gorgeous sky this morning and a mother and fawn red deer paying us a visit 🦌 🌅

26/11/2024

23/11/2024

Take care if you’re travelling over the weekend ❄️

22/11/2024