If only I have the £8K-£15K per person, per week, to sail on her. She is a beauty!
Hebridean Princess visits Ardvasar
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A Google view
Below are two screen shots, one showing where the Aird of Sleat is on Skye (marked by a red dot on its most southernly tip), and a second (closer in) with our land roughly outline in red.
Eigg
Eigg (the second largest of the Inner Hebridean Islands) sits like a whale in the water, with the Scurr of Eigg acting as a mini dorsal fin.
The ferry to Mallaig
The Mallaig to Ardvasar ferry runs all year round, though in the winter the service is a restricted one with the weather also playing its part to it sometimes not running.
Our beach
Nancy is so excited by the idea of having her own beach at the bottom of our garden. Already a hide, and a zip wire down are planned. When the tide goes out, old oyster beds are revealed, one of which makes a natural swimming pool. It is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI Aird Thuirinis-Port Na Long), you can find more out about this at: http://protectedplanet.net/sites/Aird_Thuirinis_Port_Na_Long_Site_Of_Special_Scientific_Interest
It’s not always sunny
May 2010 – our first visit to the site
Here is a series of images taken on our first trip to see the land in May 2010, but with very different views as spring had sprung. The first image shows the 270 degree sea views on offer – AMAZING! It was everything we have been searching for over the past ten years since we had decided to look into buying a piece of land and building a second home for holidaying. Individually and as a family we have been coming to this part of Scotland for 26 years so finally a long term dream was on the verge of becoming reality.
We came to a verbal agreement with Charlie the farmer which began the purchase of sale. Firstly the land needed to be de-crofted and outline planning permission sort, this was Charlies responsibility. Once he had agreement from the local authorities that this would be granted we made a formal offer in September 2010 which was accepted. This then started a complicated and slow process which took 17 months to complete, but we finally exchanged in January this year 2012.
While the land purchase took place we began working with our architect friend Nigel Johnston to design a house. He lives locally on the mainland at Arisaig and has been designing contemporary homes for locals and incomers for years. One of his more famous clients is Cameron Mackintosh the theatre empresario who owns huge tracks of land around Loch Morar and Mallaig. Our vision was for a home that kept to the local vernacular of a one and a half storey construction, but with a ‘Grand Design’ twist to capture the amazing see views.
January 2010 – the perfect plot
These are the first pictures of the land which was about to change our lives forever .The land had been offered to us by Charlie MacGillivray a farmer on the southern tip of the Isle of Skye. The site is on the Sleat peninsula in a hamlet called Aird of Sleat which is four miles from the village of Ardvasar from where the ferry comes in from the mainland at Mallaig.
