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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Solas Eige are hiring!
SOLAS EIGE is looking for a short term Project Support Consultant to join their team.
📍 Remote working welcome/4 months contract
📅 Apply by 30 October 2025
www.solaseigethelightofeigg.org/blog/project...

PROJECT SUPPORT CONSULTANT FOR SOLAS EIGE

Hello! As part of our SLF funding package, we have been awarded £4,500 for project support to bring capacity to our board and ensure all the essential repairs to the church are com

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · 6d

🌟 BIG NEWS! 🌟
Solas Eige has been funded!🎉 Thanks to the Scottish Land Fund, Solas Eige can purchase St Columba’s Church and begin its transformation into the Solas Eige Centre. solaseigethelightofeigg.org
#SolasEige #FundingSuccess #IsleOfEigg #CommunityPower #TogetherWeCreate

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Solas Eige is an EIGG COMMUNITY INITIATIVE set up to purchase THE ISLE OF EIGG CHURCH of St Columba’s . The Church has been put up for sale by the Church of Scotland trustees.Following a robust feas...

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · Aug 11

Eigg from Sandaig, Knoydart #Scotland #IsleofEigg #Knoydart www.damianshields.com

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ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk · Aug 26

Looking west over #Mallaig towards #Eigg and #Rum. The postcard was written on this day in 1908

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Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com · Sep 7

More #seaweed from holiday. Gutweed (Ulva intestinalis) is green #alga (plant) often dominating upper-shore #rockpools. Looks a mess out of water, but underwater it's otherworldly: jungle of thin, intestinal tubes, bubbling with oxygen by-product of photosynthesis. Near Morar and on Eigg, Scotland.

Gutweed : Ulva intestinalis : Scotland : VC97 West Inverness-shire : NM6590 Traigh : August 2025

Gutweed : Ulva intestinalis : Scotland : VC104 North Ebudes : NM4884 Galmisdale : August 2025

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 16d

Professor Alex Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod from the UHI Institute for Northern Studies, Viking and Early Medieval Studies, headed to the Scottish island of Eigg on September 18, 2025, to organise two days of work with The Isle of Eigg Guiding Company.
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UHI Viking and Early Medieval Studies Pilot Programme Begins on the Island of Eigg

Professor Alex Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod from the UHI Institute for Northern Studies, Viking and Early Medieval Studies, headed to the Scottish island of Eigg on September 18, 2025, to organise t…

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 15d

On a rather stormy crossing to the Island of Eigg for the @thinkuhi.bsky.social Tourism Knowledge Exchange Program , Dr Alex Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod were escorted by some rather unexpected friends.

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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 11d

Rum and Eigg from Muck

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Sarah M @sarah-owl.bsky.social · 11d

#TheAlphabetChallenge
#MforMemories
Rum from Eigg 2018. The last holiday before my lungs kicked off, when I was running the most I ever had. This was taken on my long run, on a gloriously sunny morning, not long before I got lost amongst a field of cattle.

The outline of the Rhum Cuillin across a short distance of sea. A sandy beach and machair in the foreground

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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · Aug 5

July sunset under a pewter sky towards the Small Isle of Eigg.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear

A watercolour sunset with a low, dark grey foreground, a golden pink horizon and a grey/blue/ochre sky. Painted with cobalt blue, Turners yellow and cadmium red pigment.

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · Jul 7

AFFORDABLE #HOUSING Scotland’s community housing, land & development bodies have launched a new Community Led Housing Alliance to help tackle the national housing crisis and enable communities everywhere to thrive.
@communitylandsc.bsky.social
‪@nationwidefdtn.bsky.social‬
@cdalglish.bsky.social

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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · Jun 6

Another wonderful Scottish beach under stormy skies, in Morar looking towards the Small Isles of Eigg and Rum.

Watercolour on Arches paper
320x220mm

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Angus Miller @geowalks.scot · Jun 10

Another lovely geology day in the Hebrides. An Sgùrr on Eigg is magic combination of a highly satisfying walk, amazing scenery and a cracking geological detective story (complete with smoking gun).

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Angus Miller @geowalks.scot · Jun 10

Or the Geology of Eigg, available for free online geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org/p/egs/geolog... (*only* available online at the moment, until I get the reprint organised!)

The geology of Eigg | GeoGuide

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · Jun 11

Creative nonfiction piece about a wonderful naturalist on the Isle of Eigg ⛰️ Written by Iona Macduff, Tyndall member and Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar on the Critical Decade for Climate Change programme at UEA

Iona Macduff @ionamacduff.bsky.social · May 6

Every time I tried to write about Eigg, I wrote about John the Bird. This piece gets at why: what one person can do if they truly know and love a place. You can read it in Paperboats Zine Issue 5, paperboats.org/2025/04/09/t... along with some other beautiful pieces 🌍💚 @paperboatswriters.bsky.social

Looking from a height over green fields, then the white sands of Laig Bay and the blue sea sound between Eigg and the island of Rum, whose rocky peaks have puffy clouds sitting on top.

A white-haired man, John the Bird, stands with his back to us, poring over a moth-identification book in front of a large window, outside of which is a dense green bush.

On the left, a moth identification book is open showing a series of moths. On the right, a notepad records the day's moths that were captured.

mesmerising patterns of black and white sand in the foreground leading up to a thin pale strip of sea and then the island of Rum looking like a silhouette in the background.

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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · Jun 5

Dreaming of an island adventure this summer? 🏝️

Why not head over to the Isle of Eigg for a guided walk with our wonderful Ranger? Head off the beaten track to explore hidden habitats and the wild side of the island. ⛰️ 🌊

Find out more on our website.👇
buff.ly/DdQyAbu

#Scotland #Wildlife

A photo showing small waves breaking on a sandy beach on the coast of the Isle of Eigg. Further out, the sea is shades of blue. To the right of the photo are the green hills of the island while in the distance mountains can be seen under white fluffy clouds.
Photo taken by Corinne Thompson.

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AKP Recordings @akprecordings.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you @morerealisticgoals.bsky.social for including Arthur King on your latest radio show 📻 💞

In honor of this blast from the recent past, take 30% off remaining vinyl copies of Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) through 6/19 with the code: eigg

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're very proud of our Tree Nursery, and will be showing it off with tours every Monday this summer. Once a month it's Trees and Tunes - first off Eilidh Shaw on 9 June (here's a taste of Eilidh's music youtu.be/5oBebtbT9TY?...)
Buy trees & book tours at treenursery.isleofeigg.org/shop

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JB @johnbleakley.bsky.social · May 24

Small Isles sunrise, first outing for this image I shot whilst away with @rkphotographic.bsky.social‬ in 2023, and still many more share worthy images to go at from that #Arnamurchan visit. #scotland #smallisles #rum #rumcuillins #eigg #sunrise #portuairk #inbhiralltnaluachair #landscape #stormhour

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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · May 27

📢 Join us in 2 weeks to hear from Ed Pybus and Neil Robertson on what crofting is, opportunities for small scale food productions, and the specific issues that the crofting community face on the Isle of Eigg. 💡

📅 Tuesday 10 June at 7pm

✅ Register for free here: bit.ly/3Sl0di5

#foodstudies

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · May 30

Still time to register for this summer's Fèis Eige (9th-11th July)! 🎶🪗🎻 🎶

Please submit a Fèis Eige application form here: feiseige.wordpress.com/application-... by Mon 2nd June of possible or email [email protected] with any queries.

Further info available at feiseige.wordpress.com

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Kirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social · May 28

My new photo blog - a week of ever-changing dawns, of light, mood and atmosphere on the Isle of Eigg in March. @isleofeigg.bsky.social
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Dawn over Eigg: a photo blog

Dawn or dusk; sunrise or sunset: are they the same or so different, the light and mood ever-changing.

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Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social · May 19

QUICK! Summer Solstice cancellation for Sweeney's Bothy. Saturday 21st to Saturday 28th June.
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StorTera @stortera.bsky.social · May 13

🔋 50kW/75kWh battery system to Knoydart maxing efficiency of the hydro scheme & generators, results in 20% water conservation by providing frequency response with clean back up power.
🚗 Off-grid DC chargers on Eigg that divert excess solar to EVs and stabilise the grid using fast frequency response

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