This week on the Blogger Network, Ian Johnston at Mountain and Sea Scotland goes for a paddle on Loch Maree.

We added a few new blogs to the Blogger Network this week, and one of them was Mountain and Sea Scotland. Ian Johnston blogs about writes about hillwalking, sea kayaking and rural subjects – plus the odd gear review – and is based near Alford in NE Scotland.

In his latest post, Ian tells a simple but lovely story of paddling out to an island which contains its own loch, which itself has its own island:

What makes this an unusual place is that here on a loch there’s an island, which itself has a loch with an island in it! I don’t know of any other place in Scotland where this can be found. Eilean Subhainn is the second largest freshwater loch island in Scotland, only Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond is bigger.

Read the full post here.