SEA EAGLE SOARS ABOVE THE CALEDONIAN CANAL

The mystery of partially devoured fish on the banks of the Caledonian Canal appears to have been solved by the discovery of a White Tailed "Sea" Eagle who recently took up residence for a few days at Dochgarroch.

Confirmed by the RSPB as a juvenile, the first photograph helps illustrate the enormouse size to which these magnificent birds of prey can grow. Here we see some local crows "mobbing" the eagle in an attempt to drive it away from their territory.

Anyone else with sightings of the eagle or with other wildlife photographs from the canal, please get in touch.

(photograph credit: Dave Bird of the dutch barge Geertruida)

Scottish canal website

Happy New Year everyone (sorry it's a bit late).

Whilst having a look on the Calendonian Canal Canoe Trail Facebook page, to see what's being planned this year, I spotted this web address which you might find usefull.

http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/our-canals/caledonian-canal

It has some interesting information, things to do, canal events etc, and takes your mind of the cold , dark days we have at the moment.

Have fun :)

Brrrrrrrrrr! It's Snow Joke!

A couple of photos from the Caledonian Canal at Dochgarroch.
Would love to see your photos of winter on the canal.

LATEST NEWS FROM GGCUA

CALEDONIAN CANAL CUSTOMER FORUM 2010

This year's forum, hosted by British Waterways, will take place on Saturday 27th November at The Ramada Jarvis Hotel, from 10.45am until about 1.00pm including refreshments and lunch.

If you haven't received your invitation yet, please contact British Waterways at the Seaport Marina on 01463 725500.

We hope you can attend and look forward to seeing you on the day.

Boat Jumble 30 October 2010

BOAT

JUMBLE

at

INVERNESS MARINA

SATURDAY 30th OCTOBER 2010

FROM 10.00AM TO 1.00PM

SELLERS £10 each pitch, Free entry and

free parking

CONTACT GWYN PHILLIPS 07885

232102 OR 01381 620932

ORGANISED BY

CROMARTY BOAT CLUB

photo comp

Hi heres our entry for photo comp hope this is right place for it or should it be the bin pic 1 scott playing pirates pic 2 "is it a sausage or was it the dog??????

thanks for a great day

regards Scooby 2 and the crew (poetic or what)

GGCUA GALA

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came along to the Gala on Saturday 4th September.

We were blessed with a fine, warm and sunny day and we hope you enjoyed your time there.

Congratulations to all who won prizes on the Raffle and commiserations to those who didn't!

Don'y forget your entry to the Photograph Competition - Prizes To Be Won!


A SPECIAL THANK YOU to the following,

The six new members of GGCUA who joined on the day

Russell Thomson, Manager of Highland Waterways Scotland, for the very excellent donation to the raffle of a free annual navigation licence.

Caley Marina and the Co-op, Inverness for their generous donation of gift vouchers

Sue Boyland, GGCUA Secretary, for her time, energy, IT skills and as coffee maker extraodinairre

Mike Webster, master seller of raffle tickets and membership promotions expert

Capt. Paul Homer, GGCUA Treasurer, for taking out so many on the pioner multi trips to Loch Ness, and for bringing them back again! and to Alan Hogan, Caley Marina, for lending the boat

Stan the Sound and Lighting Man, for keeping his hair on despite the power supply problems

Inverness Sea Scouts for lending us two fine gazebos

Wilma and Graham for lending us their fine gazebos, and Graham Jnr. for providing muscles to put them up, and take them down, as well as many other heavy weight tasks

Rhona, Dochgarroch Hall, for the loan of tables for the boat jumble

And last, but not least! Our Lock Keeper of the Day.... DJ!.... without whose support none of this would likely have happened.

THANK YOU TO ALL.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT TIME WE MEET AGAIN.