Situated 25 miles from Inverness
airport and with 30,000 acres of prime Highland land, it would be
hard to conceive a more perfect Scottish sporting estate. Kinveachy
can provide everything from salmon fishing to red deer stalking,
driven grouse shooting to mixed winter shooting and, though now
strictly preserved, the estate protects 5 - 10 % of Scotland’s
population of the rarest of game birds, the Capercaillie.
At the centre of the estate is Kinveachy Lodge which provides stylish
accommodation for up to 20 guests, a full service being provided
by a staff of 5 who cater for the visitor’s every need. Whether
taking a pre-dinner drink in the snug log cabin with its pine clad
walls and game trophies, or dining at the massive oak table in the
dining room surrounded by oil paintings of the Earls of Seafield
from the past four centuries, this is your opportunity to live the
life of a Scottish Laird.
Each of the ten bedrooms has either en-suite facilities or its own
exclusive private bathroom. Other services include a drying room
for wet clothing and a dedicated gunroom for the storage of guns
and outdoor clothing.
The estate’s gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies will organise
your shooting, stalking or fishing and will meet you at the gunroom
behind the lodge each morning.
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All clad in the Seafield tweed,
they are a young, professional team who are used to providing top
quality sport for guests from all over the world. The sporting year
at Kinveachy starts in February when the salmon fishing opens. An
annual average of 1,154 salmon and seatrout, over the 4 main beats,
have been caught in the last 5 years and fishing is available until
the end of September. Roe Buck stalking is available from 1st May
to 20th October but the main shooting season starts on August 12th
when
both walked up and driven grouse shooting are available.
Through August and September Red Deer stag stalking can be combined
with grouse shooting and a limited quantity of large trophy stags
are shot in September. Red deer stalking continues until 20th October
and in the latter part of the season up to 20 stags per week can
be shot by a party of up to 6 sportsmen living in the lodge. With
Kinveachy’s wide range of sport, complete weeks of shooting
in the late autumn and early winter allow programmes to be created
which offer pheasant shooting, white hares, ducks, geese and grouse
(in years where stocks permit). These shoots give visitors a chance
to experience most of the species that Scotland has to offer. |
