04-Oct-2005, 02:05 AM
NOEL, when I lived over there, every year I would go fishing for a week to Loch Shiel. Our rout was through Glasgow, over Glencoe across the Balagulish and Strontian ferries to a little village named Acharacle. We stayed at the Shiel Hotel which is on the western end of the loch close to the river Shiel. Imagine my surprise when I was invited to a friends cottage on Saturna Island, which is one of the gulf islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, on the wall were four pictures of Loch Shiel which I recognised right away. Her mothers maiden name was Shiel and that,s were she was born, small world eh.