Jan 28th 2012
New little wee arrival at Invercaimbe early this mornng.
Jan 23rd 2012
Just to let you know I am having problems with my new email and if you have emailed me re a booking and you do not recieve a reply then please can you contact me by 'phone.
Availability
30th June until Sat 11th Aug are fully booked for motorhomes and caravans. Tent spaces can be booked nearer the time
16th June is full for the week
2nd June is full for the week
Tent spaces can be booked nearer the time.
If you are a regular and have not booked yet or have sent an email and recieved no reply I have kept 2 or 3 spaces [ caravan and motorhomes]
Jan 13th 2012
A very Happy New Year to you all. I would like to ask everybody to check their holidays and try to let me know soon if you plan to be up here this summer so I can accomadate you. I am getting booked up very quickly this year so please let me know soon, thank you
Dec 24th 2011
A very Happy and relaxing Christmas to you all from Joyce Beatrice Calum and Roslin at Invercaimbe Caravan Site
We are enduring a strormy and wet winter here this time, prolonged wind and rain, without respite. Here are a few images of the last few months. Hope to see you all again in 2012 !
Oct 28th 2011
The caravan site is now closed and meanwhile you can keep
up with any news on facebook
Aug 2nd 2011
Oh dear I didnt realise it had been that long... I am too busy outside in the sun. Weather here has been lovely for nearly 3 weeks now, some very brown long stays and nobody getting blown away this year..lovely summer weather. I just want to say thank you to all the lovely people who have stayed here over the summer this year, all especially nice and well behaved, and nearly all able to cope with the extra demands of recycling more than bottles and cans on holiday.. Im so lucky I can choose my neighbours and I definatly think the nicest people are on here. Thanks so much Pat for bringing me a brand new strimmer and to everyone else who help to make this place happy and relaxed, you are all the best.
June 27th 2011
Sorry for the lack of updates! The weather in June has been good enough for all the long stays to get a suntan ! It only rains at night and on saturdays.
The site is full now until the 22nd Aug apart from last minute cancellations and small tent pitches
I will advise of any cancellations on here. Tent pitches can contact me a week or less in advance. Please note I cant take big tents
Please can all groundsheets for awnings be breathable if you have booked to stay this summer
I have a gorgeous foal just 3 weeks old and everything looks beautiful in the sun , this year the grass is green as no drought like the previous years. Only the trees are brown on the seaward side with the violent 70 mph storm at the end of May that nearly took caravans with it, very scary for everybody on the site, but its not going to happen again this summer, infact it will be a wonderful warm 3 weeks starting end of July !
May 27th
Slight edit to the post below. The site is not covered in ash but the weather is awful and continues awful until towards the end of the week when the temperature will reach double figures for the first time in nearly a month and the rain and wind will finally stop. I am very grateful to having 'regulars' who always keep their bookings no matter what the weather and would never think of cancelling without telling me first. Its understandable in this weather why cancellations occur but please can you let me know in advance, even a day or less is better than just not turning up. Thanks
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May 23rd
Dont panic ! The site will not be covered in ash next week !! The weather will be lovely and just as well my regulars keep coming and dont listen to the tv talking nonsense about ash and bad weather.
Mobile phone found on the beach at Easter weekend let me know if you have lost one
Royal wedding weekend is full until Sunday
Weather news !!! 24 th April 2011
We have had wonderful weather here all week with rain only at night
The 5 day forecast is perfect !http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/he/mallaig_forecast_weather.html
I love Arisaig when we have great weather, and it rains in Fort William but we have lots more sun than anywhere else in the Highlands
Availability and Opening 2011
AVAILABILITY UPDATE APRIL 13TH 2011
28TH MAY UNTIL 4 TH JUNE Fully booked
4th June until 11 th June Limited Availability
16th July until 13th Aug Full
Tent pitches [ 4 man and under] during busy times please text email or call me a week in advance
out with busy times it is possible to call in off chance or pref call or text beforehand 07919872309
Weather update March 24th
The weather has been lovely all week and its perfect for camping, no midges , very quiet and the summer ferry starts again on sat so hope you can come up and enjoy it here this weekend
The caravan site re opens mid March so please ignore my brochure that says Easter to October.
Easter is late this year so hope to see everyone as soon as the weather turns nice.
AVAILABILITY
The site is now fully booked for the last two weeks in July and first two weeks of August
It is also full now for Easter and for the week after Whit which starts on 4th June
It is also full for the Spring half term at the end of May. Also tents are as before, call me [pref text] the week before you plan to arrive for a tent pitch. Out of the busy periods it is possible to book a tent pitch. No large [over 4 man] tents because they damage the grass,blow away and look unsightly, blocking everyones view.
One or two storms have passed by with no damage to the site and the digger has been busy doing more banking up round the edge and putting in some hard standings. I am going to ask him to take out the last bad corner on the road as well.
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CHRISTMAS EVE 2010
Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of news. The weather here has been cold and frosty but nothing like as bad as you have all had it inland. It has made the winter very easy for me so far.
The good news for Christmas is that the wind turbine planning application was refused. Thanks to everyone who submitted a response
Look forward to seeing everyone again when the caravan site reopens in the middle of March.
Happy Christmas from Joyce, Beatrice, Calum and Roslin
Foals enjoying the snow
Sept 23rd 2010
The forecast is set to be fair and sunny for the next week. Vodafone is down so my mobile isnt working, hope you can reach me by email or the house phone
The otters are back in the estuary, they have been seen down at the Caimbe bridge
Sept 13th 2010
The weather did turn out to be lovely last week but its not nice at all right now. Not long until winter but before then hopefully we will be back to the good weather we have been lucky enough to have over here in Arisaig this year.
Plans for the winter here are to extend pitches 6 7 and 8 and put hard standing onto pitches 7 8 and 9, also do the caravan site road and maybe take out the tricky last bend before you reach my house.
AUG 29TH 2010
Sorry for the severe lack of updates. Its been so busy with phones, texts , emails, people at the door looking for pitches when the site is full !!!Yes and from 6 am until 10pm it doesnt stop. But at last its getting a bit quieter now
Indian Summer forecast for this week !!! forecast on metoffice website is giving sun every day and by thursday up to 22 degrees. And light winds !! Perfect. The holiday house is empty too this week due to a cancellation. There are caravan site pitches as well. I hope the great weather stays right through for another week.Anyway here is Ros in the fancy dress yesterday getting ready for the heatwave
AVAILABILY
July 1st
Availability
Mostly now the site is full untill 22nd Aug but there are always last minute cancellations and tent pitches for tents that are 4 man size and under. Best to call a few days in advance for these. Texting is best please. Thanks
New Foal. I got a colt foal from Amber of Westbank by Kyle. He could turn out to be black. Hes lovely and very friendly
June 13th 2010
Sorry for the lack of updates. It has been so busy with the VERY good weather here in Arisaig. The ground is burnt dry from lack of rain. Its not so easy in May and June because everybody wants to arrive outwith sat to sat , but thas fine, it just gets tricky organising exact pitches for those who want specific pitches. Anyway if you want to check tent availability please call me on a Sunday night by which time I should have availability worked out for the commencing week and weekend
Last sunday I got a pretty foal from Kyle and Winnie, shes a mouse dun, Coral of
Caimbe.
The sunny dry weather has meant lots of wildflowers...pink island below
May 5th 2010
Its a great forecast for Arisaig this weekend !
April 21st 2010
Its a beautiful day here...but only 3 guests tonight..forecast is good for the weekend ahead
AVAILABILITY CARAVAN SITE
Feb 28th 2010
If the good weather continues I hope to open from the end of this week
Please note that Whit half term week is fully booked now and Easter weekend s[Fri till tues]is full for caravans and motorhomes but I still have tent pitches. I have stopped taking bookings now from 3rd July until 21st Aug until further notice as it looks as though I am mostly full for these weeks and will hold onto any available pitches for regular guests. I do have a cancellation list. Tents can book as last year by texting me a few days in advance. I no longer take large tents [ 6 man]
Feb 13th 2010
Im making the caravan site bigger and better so I hope you will be pleased. Oh and if you look closely at the picture taken today this shows the perfect weather we have had here all winter. Calm and no gales or rain.
Bookings 2010
The caravan site is fully booked now from the 24th July until 14th Aug
July Aug bookings are from Sat to Sat unless you ask me and are for a weeks stay minimum for caravans and motorhomes
Tents are always welcome if you call email or text me I can take tent bookings for the quiet times but during the school holidays prefer to take tent bookings a few days in advance
I am putting in two more hard standings at pitch 12 and 13. Will have finished extending pitch 8 and 9 and levelling both by Easter [maybe]
Hope to have wi fi installed by Highland Wifi and hope to be able to take switch cards this year as well.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009
I took these today ..xmas eve...its lovely ! The weather has been great here for ages
Weather update October 12th
Well to be honest the wind didnt really ever go away in September, but now it most defiantly has ! Infact the forecast is so good now for the next week or so with a big area of high pressure in charge. Lucky for you if you can get away because its peaceful and settled, no midges, less traffic and the ferries are running at the summer timetable until the 24th October. I will be closing around then too.
Weather update Sept 9th
We will have wonderful weather now for the forseeable future. The wind has gone, the sun is out. This is also a good time of year to come if you want to see Otters
Weather update Sept 4th
Well it seems as if the weather is deterring people this weekend with the cancellations I have had..yet its not as bad as they say, infact its dry here justnow !
Here is little Cowrie, hes getting his winter woolies now, hes still as friendly as ever !
Availability and weather update Aug 23rd
The weather has been 'unsettled' ha ha ..for the last two weeks. But guaranteed its nothing like as bad as further inland, the rain blows over quickly. The met office like to issue weather warnings for a little bit of wind and rain, but in between the wind and rain there are lovely days, afternoons and mornings ! Its still August not January !
The caravan site is sandy soil and really free draining so there is no mud or getting stuck. The forecast for today was bad but its lovely outside.
There are pitches available through this week and from next Saturday onwards
Availability and Weather update
July 20th
Weather is still fair, mixed this week but always with sunny spells. Due to improve again on friday.Up till now it has been amazing anyway
Availability
I have reached saturation point with the volume of telephone calls, emails, phone messages and texts.
The site is full until the end of Aug but there are one or two tent pitches that come and go. Text or call me either the day before or in the morning for these. Best not to call me after 9.30 pm as I get up at 6 so like to be asleep by then. If there are cancellations I will mention them on my phone message or on here.
News Page
Weather update June 30th
Its too hot this week. 26 degrees and not much less at night. Really hard to fill in the potholes in the road in this heat.
Availability
Text me the day before or the morning of, for tent pitches. There are one or two pitches available over the summer but I prefer to do short notice when its busy
Weather update June 27th
Weather is very hot and sunny and set to continue for the week
Availability
I have some pitches available for the coming week and the week beginning 4th July. Tent, Caravan or Motorhome
Text me on 07919872309 if you cant reach me on the phone
Weather update June 16th
The weather is still beautiful here, always sunshine, today with a warm breeze to keep the midges away. There is a change forecasted though but we are badly needing rain.
Orchids
An Orchid with the most beautiful scent is the Greater Butterfly Orchid, I sent some photos of the ones that are opening on the croft justnow to SNH and they identified them as being GBO's. There are several other species on the croft at the moment, Im not very good at identifying them if they are hybrids but I think some of them must be as they have blotched leaves but features of the Northern marsh Orchid. There are a lot of NMO's on the verges justnow, as well as a clump of LBOs or GBO's [ I still have to check their little faces] and I have asked the council to please not cut the verges this year where they are growing.
my Greater Butterfly
Orchid. Sorry I cant bottle the scent.
Maybe a heath spotted
orchid?
Chicks
There are red shank, ringed plover and lapwing chicks down on the sand beside the Caimbe bridge. I nearly ran one over ! Its mum was leading it across the road from one side of the Caimbe to the other, because it was so small it wouldnt have been able to get under the bridge. I had to brake suddenly and its mum flew off and left it ! Luckily no other traffic came along until the redshank baby and its mum were safely down the other side in the reeds.
Whales and Dolphins
Lots of them about justnow, a pod of over 200 dolphins sighted by people on the Sheerwater and a minke whale just off Mallaig reported by John Morrison when he was out fishing for mackerel.
Weather update June 12th
Its still very hot here, wall to wall sunshine, everything is burnt dry. I cant believe I had some people cancel because of the 'bad forecast' ha ha, you dont know what your missing !
This foal still looks ridiculous, someone tell me he is a mushroom and will grow overnight, he is very skinny, like a waif, but he is a first foal and sometimes they are small. He does think hes big though. He is called Cowrie of Caimbe.
Weather update June 10th
The sunny weather continues every day. Unfortunately for those of you who were here during Whit week the good weather you had on the last two days of your holiday has lasted right through until today! And don't listen to the weather forecast either for here ....any predicted change in the weather to rain and wind wont happen in Arisaig. I have checked the pressure charts and the best of the weather will still be in the north west. I hear it has also been very good out in the Hebrides as well
Winnie has foaled today, a small colt who took all day to learn to drink milk, hopefully once he has unfolded himself he will look more like a foal .
. He will be Kyles first foal for me.
Weather update May 15th
The weather has been amazing all week, just perfect. Please ignore the metoffice nonsense forecast and check here instead ! Forecast for the week ahead is very good according to me. I will keep updating this page .
May 5th 2009
The weather this spring has not been at all like last year. A lot more rain but when the sun comes out [as it still does most days] it can still be lovely. The Met office have decided to tell everyone that its to pour here all week but I think they are trying to put people off, its never as bad as they say.
Never mind the grass is growing and there are other visitors here who dont mind the rain. Curlew, redshank and lapwing are all breeding, and there are wheatear, twites, windchat and stonechat all over, some breeding some passing through on their way to Greenland. Kyle the stallion also has had mares visiting him, all very lovely and hopefully will all soon be in foal.
Availability for 2009 .
Please check the Holiday house pages for availability for Caimbebridge House and Studio. The Caravan Site Availability is as follows
Easter Fully booked for Easter weekend for Caravans and Motor homes, some tent pitches available
May Some Availability until the 23rd then full until the 30th
June 30th May to 6th June Fully booked
6th June to 27th June Fair availability
27th June until July 4th Availability
July until 18th Fully Booked now
July 18th until Aug 1st Fully Booked now
Aug 1st until Aug 8th Fully booked now .
Aug 8th until 23rd Aug Fully booked now
22nd Aug onwards Still fair availability
March 28th Weather not good for camping at the moment but it is going to improve in time for the weekend [April 3rd]
Opening Date
March 20th Weather amazing.
Caravan site opens 19th March . Weather forecast is good for the middle of the week onwards. Weather has been really bad,enough to make me want to move to a drier place for me and my livestock.
Sat 7th March Made a long journey to Perth Mart with the stallion for The National Stallion Show and managed to get champion highland pony. Took the wrong turn and came home by Lochearnhead but at least we were able to get fish and chips at Bridge of Orchy and at least my car didnt break down again like it has done twice now when Ive been away getting hay. Thanks Mandy who came with me to help
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March 1st
Sad to say that Missy lost her foal. The foal [a filly] was already dead inside her but about 6 weeks early. The vets couldnt turn the foal into the right position so I had to take her to the Vet hospital where they eventually got it out. Missy survived but cant go in foal again.
Availability for 2009 .
Please check the Holiday house pages for availability for Caimbebridge House and Studio. The Caravan Site Availability is as follows
Easter Fully booked for Easter weekend for Caravans and Motor homes, some tent pitches available
May including Whit Now Full
June Availability
July until 18th Fully Booked now
July 18th until Aug 1st Fully Booked now
Aug 1st until Aug 8th Fully booked now .
Aug 8th until 22nd Aug Fully booked now
22nd Aug onwards Still fair availability
Feb 8th 2009
No snow here but cold and quiet, very nice.
New Road open
Maybe not officially but the new road is finished apart from tidying up, its BRILLIANT ! .It takes about 10 mins of the journey to Fort William and makes towing 100% easier. Bringing a caravan or trailer tent will seem much less stressful .
Jan 23rd
The damage wasn't too bad from the storm, just some slates, it defiantly wasn't a force 12 like they forecasted.
Now they are forecasting snow over the weekend and beyond. This is more of a worry as I'm running out of hay and had planned to go north to get enough to do me a few weeks. I took another cow to Dingwall sale on weds and came home via Kyle to pick up some hay there. It was a quicker route to get home but I had to pay for the ferry and fill in a dangerous goods form for the hay ! A bit mad that. Also 6 Calmac men made me reverse the horse trailer onto the ferry and watched me doing it. I would have liked to have seen them try icing a cake with a load of women staring at them....So although its nearer to go to pick up hay at Kyle I might be less bother going elsewhere
Jan17th 2009
Jan 17th half past two in the afternoon. Ive already lost two slates and its hours until the worst is expected. The wind is gusting to about force 9 already, from the south.Ive moved papers and stuff out of the conservatory and Ive tied down the dingys. I put the ponies in but that might not be the best idea. But I dont want them getting hit by something. The tides aren't expected to be that high so my Mum and the boats should be okay. I expect with these two slates gone the wind will take a load of them off now but its too dangerous for me to go up on a ladder.
Expecting hurricane force winds tonight from a southerly direction. I expect I will lose slates and or conservatories if it is as bad as it looks on the charts. At least I wont have to feed the cows in it on Sunday morning. I had to sell them the other day, one more to go on tuesday, its not something I wanted to do but I had to.
Jan 6th 2009
Happy New Year to all.
It has been much colder here this winter, gales proceeded by a very quiet and still fortnight over Christmas and New Year, good weather.
Tents Please note. I no longer take tent bookings in advance for the busy holiday periods. However it is possible to reserve a tent pitch if you call me on my mobile a few days before you hope to come. I know that this is not helpful if you are trying to organise a holiday but it usually is successful in securing a pitch. I can take tent bookings for other times out with the busy holiday period, if you are only coming for a night or two it is more helpful to me if you contact me by text on my mobile a few days beforehand. If you plan to stay for a week or a long weekend then if you make contact by phone or email I will try to accommodate you and will take a formal booking.
Very Big Tents I no longer take the very big cottage style tents as they are damaging to the grass and take up too much room.
Dec 24th.
Merry Christmas and All the Best for 2009
14th October
Things are much quieter and the weather has been poor all October. With the bad weather and less people about the wildlife have started to be about more. A family of Otters have been about the Caimbe most of the month, eating shore crabs and playing. Curlew are really shy but now they are about the estuary with the place being much quieter. Widgeon are here now too for the winter.
9th September
Weather is always good here ! Consistently we have had lovely weather all
summer. I heard today it has been raining elsewhere, sorry to hear that.Really
it is only good here, the sun shines all the time. Memories of the summer are of
sunshine and sunsets.Its still good and set to continue. You are all very
welcome until the end of October.
19th July
Weather is bad ! Site is full until 23rd August but call in the morning for tent pitches
Took Kyle showing and managed to get 2nd.
June 22nd
Two things to tell. Theres another pony, Winnie, shes here to have a foal with Kyle and go back to her owner in Cumbria in foal , shes a pretty girl and nice and quiet. I think she will match with Kyle and make a nice foal. And the heifer calved, well not on her own, we had to take her in to get her in the crush. That wasn't her plan so she jumped over the wheelbarrow and swam across the water with the tide in to the other side. Eventually got her in and had to pull it out with a lot of pulling Now they are fine, think she wants to adopt next time though
Most pitches are booked now for Saturday 28th and will stay booked now for the summer, however there are cancellations and a few tent spaces that will come and go
Weather has turned changeable and not so good now but it will come back again
June 18th
I haven't had much time to update things here, and having a missing 'a' key on my laptop didn't encourage me to type either. Back to normal now.
The 2 months of dry sunny weather broke last weekend and now the ground and the vegetables are being watered. Its not all that bad though, the sun comes out in between the showers and everything looks bright clean and washed.
Happy news; The Shell ducks managed to raise nine babies. They kept them well hidden and I was worried that the fox had taken them, but early one morning I saw them all in the water at Traigh. Other babies to note are lots of lapwing, plover and redshank chicks feeding about on the estuary. Curlews defiantly have nested ,I can hear them calling at night when my windows is open. Skylark, Windchat, Greenfinch and Goldfinch seen round the croft, a flock of Mergansers' following fish into the Caimbe at high water, a Cormorant tonight trying to eat a big eel outside the house with the tide in, and earlier on in the month about 7 Golden Plover in summer plumage just feeding around a neighbouring croft [ one with livestock in..]. They were on their way north.
June flowers are abundant, Marsh, Heath and Butterfly orchid [had to stop the road verge man today from cutting them ,grrrr, made me mad...] ragged robin,cowslip, ladies smock , but No ragwort ,well not much. All these years of taking it out have made a difference, maybe I will have it all pulled by mid July or even sooner, then I can enjoy the summer.
Butterfly Orchid
Pearl Bordered Fritilary[both
pictures taken here]
June 11th
sorry the site is full for this coming weekend [ fri and sat]
June 3rd
availability for this weekend
sorry the site is full now for this coming weekend
could be something to do with this
Its constant sunshine here, sorry. That's 6weeks now. Don't believe the forecast, it doesn't rain.Maybe twice but it was at night. It rains at Glenfinnn but it doesn't rain here.
anyway what you have to do when its like this is take the
horse to water.
not
me but Marty riding Kyle.
24th May
Still really hot and sunny, and no end in sight with sunny weather forecast for the week. Ignore the talk of rain it wont happen here. There are a few spaces from Tuesday onwards
May 20th
The site is fully booked for the Bank holiday weekend . Try the Croft 01687450200, across the water . Or Portnadoran 01687450267,just along the beach
The weather continues to stay hot and sunny. That will be 4 weeks now of hot sunshine and no rain. The ground is very dry and we need rain for the grass now. There are few spots forecast for Friday night but it will come to nothing as the wind is in the east. The forecast for the weekend is for more sunshine, lots of it. Enjoy ! But think of my grass and my seeds !at least the peats will be very dry and everyone has a suntan.
May 15th
availability for this weekend.
The forecast is still good and it will not rain.
Most of the spaces are now booked for Friday and Saturday. there are a few tent pitches but they wont be on the beach side. Will update this page for next weekends availability.
Summer has had her foal, a lovely black filly. The sire was lost last year to Grass Sickness and it my be his only filly as he was only three. His legacy lives on in Glenbruar Summer Thyme
May 13th
The weather is so hot ! How lucky we are, such a long spell of good weather now, into our second week . I have been schooling Kyle and cutting peat to dry out in the sun. The Inquiry into Crofting has issued its report to the Scottish Parliament, for me it sounds very good. There may be an end in sight to the croft speculation that has threatened our way of life and culture in recent years. Crofts may now attach burdens of residency to them and crofts must be worked to produce food . I hope the proposals become reality
May 11th
availability for next weekend [16th May]
There is still plenty of availability through the week and for next weekend. The weather is still hot here and looks good for the week ahead.
May 10th
Naturewatch
Various guests have spotted the following; Otter down the shore at Loch Morar, just feeding and looking for crabs. Red deer in close proximity down the Rhu road; flock of feeding Terns just at the mouth of the Caimbe and a rabbit swimming across the Caimbe at full tide !
Goldfinches, whinchats, greenfinches, and I heard a curlew, they must be breeding, they are very elusive during the breeding season but I did hear one
Great Northern at Camasdarach!
I also hear that there are Mackerel about, further north anyway. lots of them, it must be the heat bringing them in
May 9th
