When I was on Jura early May we spent quite some time at the Corran Sands. There are several ways to access this beautiful beach and I always like the stretch of beach near the airstrip the best. The views from this part of the beach to Craighouse, the Small Isles Bay and the Paps [...]
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June 3 2011
Jura Passenger Ferry Saved
Jura Fast Ferry Service awarded ‘one off’ funding from Argyll and Bute Council. Argyll and Bute Council has agreed to give the Jura Development Trust £24,000 to keep the passenger ferry service between Jura and Tayvallich operational for summer 2011. The money is a one off until the findings of the Scottish Ferries Review are [...]
April 23 2011
Council doesn’t grant Funds for Jura Passenger Ferry
When I read the sad news about the Jura Passenger Ferry on Friday I Tweeted “Bugger… No funding for Jura Passenger Ferry”. The Jura Passenger Ferry service between Tayvallich and Craighouse, operated by the Isle of Jura Development Trust, won’t sail due to a loss of necessary funding. The funds to keep the service running [...]
April 1 2011
Jura Passenger Service Withdrawn
The Oban Times reports that the Award-winning Jura Passenger Ferry Service will not run this year because of a lack of support from the local authority and government, say the ferry operators. The three-year pilot project to run a passenger ferry service between Craighouse on the Isle of Jura and Tayvallich on the Argyll mainland, [...]
August 23 2010
Jura Passenger Ferry Safe For Now
Argyll and Bute Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Jura Development Trust have together found an additional £15,000 for the ferry service. This means the service will complete the entire three years of its pilot phase and can be fully assessed before decisions are made about its future viability. The council took the [...]
August 19 2010
Colour Change for Jura Hotel
Jura Hotel has changed owners last year and in the last months the outside of the building has received a completely new layer of white paint. The result is fabulous and the building looks so much better than it did before. Although the picture is taken on the wrong time of day, with backlight, I [...]
August 4 2010
End of Jura Passenger Ferry?
A reader from the Jura blog sent me a link to a somewhat alarming article on the Herald website. In the article is written that there is a possiblity that the Jura Passenger ferry will cease before the end of the three year trial period due to a lack of funding. Not only the fact [...]
July 12 2010
Jura’s Ardfin Estate For Sale
Dave, owner of a holiday house on Jura, sent me a link to the website of www.struttandparker.com where you can find information about Ardfin Estate, which is currently for sale, for more than £3,500,000. If you can spare the money you get one of the most beautiful estates in Scotland, in a superb location, including [...]
March 11 2010
Isle of Jura on Google Streetview
The Isle of Jura is now visible on Google Streetview, same as Islay, Jura’s neighbour. To access Google Streetview go to maps.google.co.uk and type for instance Craighouse Jura. Click the the link Craighouse on the left of the screen and when the pop-up appears click on the Streetview link below the image. I have “travelled” [...]
February 28 2010
Isle of Jura Winter Scenes
The winter in this part of Scotland has been unusually cold with many days of snow and frosty nights. The gales that usually batter the island in the winter took a detour and what was left were a lot of sunny and crisp winter days. The Paps of Jura have been covered in snow for [...]
