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August 2021
Guided Tour at Knockan Crag
Join our local geologist Pete Harrison for a guided tour of Knockan Crag.
Meet at the Knockan Crag car park at 11:00am. Places are free thanks to NatureScot sponsorship.
Quinag Walk with the John Muir Trust
Map and compass skills. Learn basic map features, how to take a bearing, walking to a point on the map using a compass.
Find out more »September 2021
Guided Tour at Knockan Crag
Join our local geologist Pete Harrison for a guided tour of Knockan Crag.
Meet at the Knockan Crag car park at 11:00am. Places are free thanks to NatureScot sponsorship.
Geopark Geotour
Travel the length of the Geopark visiting the areas of geological significance in the company of local geologist Pete Harrison
Find out more »Quinag Walk with the John Muir Trust
A mountain walk up Spidean Coinich, Quinag. This walk offers spectacular views and possible sightings of ptarmigan, mountain hare and golden eagles.
Find out more »October 2021
Geopark (extended weekend) Geotour – Fully Booked
Travel the length of the Geopark visiting the areas of geological significance in the company of local geologist Pete Harrison.
Find out more »Nut Collection Walk with the John Muir Trust
Nut collection walk with our partners at Coigach-Assynt Living Landscape (CALL). Help us on a foraging walk, collecting seed sources for the native tree nursery.
Find out more »Talk – Building Stones of Inverness
Talk on Building Stones of Inverness by Andy Moffat. Andy Moffat is a retired graduate petroleum geologist. Having worked in the oil and gas exploration drilling industry for nearly 42 years on UK and international drilling operations. Mostly working on onshore and offshore drilling rigs as a wellsite geologist on a variety of hydrocarbon prospects ranging from potential sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic reservoirs. More recently, office based onshore, first as a senior operations geologist and then subsurface team leader in…
Find out more »Beach Pebble Events at Ardmair Bay
Join geologists and volunteers from the North West Highlands Geopark and Scottish Geology Trust on the beach for some hands-on activities to explore the stories hidden in every pebble. We’ll discover an amazing variety of pebbles, find out where they come from and what they tell us about Scotland’s geology. We’ll also find out why the beach looks the way it does, and how it might change in the next few decades with climate change. You can try out some…
Find out more »Guided Walk – Building Stones of Inverness
A walk through Inverness looking at the building stones of the town led by Andy Moffat. This is a follow up to the (Zoom) talk on 11th October. Andy Moffat is a retired graduate petroleum geologist. Having worked in the oil and gas exploration drilling industry for nearly 42 years on UK and international drilling operations. Mostly working on onshore and offshore drilling rigs as a wellsite geologist on a variety of hydrocarbon prospects ranging from potential sedimentary, igneous and…
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