It has been a busy time at the lake this Autumn with flocks of Swans and Goldeneye Ducks. Goldeneye Ducks are winter visitors to both...

Congratulations to Failte Ireland and Donegal Co Co on the Donegal Sustainable Tourism Seminar last Wednesday at Harvey's Point. It was a...

We were mesmersised by all these caterpillars down by the lake while on our walk to the school bus the other morning. Deserving of their...

The summer holidays are here. All is lush and green with long swishy swashy grass and wildflowers in every direction including up on the...

Valentines Day may have passed but love is still in the air... and on the bog, and in the fields, in the ditches, in the puddles and on...

It's all go in the meadow. This little cuckoo flower is proving popular!

We've had a pretty prowler over the last couple of evenings making lots of squawky noise and venturing right up to our window. It's...

Curl up and unwind after a cross country hike or (if brave enough) a winter lake dip.. With its strawbale thermal mass walls, underfloor...

Canada Geese are back on the lake again. As its name implies, the greater Canada goose is not a native species - in Ireland colonisation...

The frogs are spawning and the buds are budding...hello Spring. Nature keeps to her schedule and the world keeps turning despite the...

We are so thrilled to receive a Tripadvisor 2021 Travellers' Choice Award thanks to all the guests who took the time to write about their...

What a find! An abandoned bird nest in a Rhodedendron bush - what clever little birdies made this we wonder and made it so well that it...

If you're bat squeamish then look away. The girls were pretty stoked with this find. We wonder is/was it a baby or full blown adult, it...

Pretty Meadow Brown butterflies are everywhere at the moment. These two are getting a little romantic. :-) #Nature #Butterfly #Summer

Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...

What a beautifully still lake this morning, the forest spotlit by the early morning sun. #morningslikethese #LakesideGlamping #Donegal...

Our first yurt is going up this week hurrah! Over two weeks have been spent preparing the foundations and platform, much longer than...

We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...

Lime rendering the external walls is now complete. Coat after coat has been applied by hand, initially massaged into the straw and then...

A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...