A belated Happy New Year to all those who have stayed with us here at Evergreen in the past and to those who will be visiting this year - we hope that you had a good one!
The festivities are over for another year and tonight we welcome our first guests of 2011. However, for many people work does not start again until next week and driving around Inverness this morning it was very quiet with no problems parking which is all very pleasant. The same can be said of tourism generally over the next 2 months - it is quiet and a very pleasant time to visit Loch Ness if you wish to just chill out and relax without the hustle and bustle of crowds. It is also a good time for seeing wildlife - the cold weather has driven the deer down to low levels and we regularly see them in the garden at present. Equally, the red squirrels have returned and we have three feeding daily from our bird feeders. And you never know, if you are out and about, you might be lucky and see pine marten, badgers or otters - just before Christmas friends who live locally, looked out their kitchen window to see two otters playing on the nearby frozen river Farigaig!