Family Photos

People say what will you do when you leave Rona, well here is a thing, gather up all the Rona photos and history, keep the blog going posting it all. So look out.

Here are a few my Older Sister Margaret sent lately, she promises more. I have tons too.

Don’t know if you can read it and I have asked for a better copy, but here is a (innacurate) article on Rona when it went up for sale.

Another article from Margaret’s collection, I should say here that she was here before me as a cook up at the Qinetic Base (back then BUTEC) but left just as I arrived in the South. But thankfully she kept these articles, always interesting to read about Peter Clayton’s time here.

Then there was Donald and Fiona MaCalman who were here for a number of years and were well liked locally having their time during Donald Matheson’s fish farm days in Dhu Chamas. The only Qinetic (BUTEC) guy I know there is Mike Webster who was up North for much of my days here until it closed.

They were here when the Lodge was renovated and here we have the builders taking a break, a lot of work back in the day.

Then there was me, living alone here for three years then Lorraine joined me, Jeez was I that thin!!!!

This last photo must have been in the very early days just after Raymond and Mary left, happy days knocking it into shape.

Everyone loved Choppy and Lady, they used to take the visitors to Church Cave and other destinations. They were very happy dogs.

All for now but I am sure there are more to come

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About Bill Cowie

I've been living on the island since April 2002, alone for the first 5 years, my partner L joined me in 2007. We manage the Island for a Danish family who bought the Island in the early 90's. Their hopes for the Island are to make it self sufficient supporting its inhabitants and that is where we come in. We look after the stock, 3 holiday cottages, machinery, boat and of course the visitors. It is pretty challenging but it is a beautiful place to live and work, we love it and strangely enough we love it even more in the depths of winter when all is quiet apart from the gales and rain. We do a bit of fishing, stock work, stalking deer and loads of other stuff. We have good support from lots of people whom we have met over the years and have become involved in the Island. Too many to mention here but keep an eye on the blog, they'll be there for sure in the future.
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