Ourano Pointers

08/09/2025

“It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.”
~Steve Jobs

Just some moments from the 2025 season. What a blessing it is to find ourselves where we now are. There is a beautiful story unfolding and bursting at the seams, waiting to be written, and I feel it is my duty to share it with the world. I read something that really resonated with me, that you are allowed to be unsure of the journey whilst being completely sure of the outcome, and I’ve really sat with that the last few days. It hits home to me as most days this whole ride seems like a wild, out of control rollercoaster, but I’m always strangely sure it will all work out in the end. There is no destination without the journey, so as uncertain as it may seem at times, I’ve realised I just need to pull up a comfortable chair, pour myself a glass of good wine, and enjoy it all as best I can. Looking back one day, we’ll all understand just how special it all was.

Always chasing the horizon. 🏴‍☠️

05/09/2025

Guests come here for the Greywing, the trout, the adventure, and the silence of the Highlands… but they often leave with something far greater. They leave with a sense of connection, to nature, to the dogs, and often most importantly, to themselves. Ourano is more than a destination. It is a horizon worth chasing. And my mission is to honour the symbiotic relationship between people, animals, and the land.

Always chasing the horizon.

All photos courtesy of the talented 📸

25/08/2025

If you just start dancing, Chris, I can assure you, by the powers vested in me (more than you could ever imagine), the music will be added. As will the partners, the giant disco ball, and whatever else you like.

But I must warn you, "start" is not to be confused with "start and then stop to see if anything happens." Nope, that's "I'm scared, tired, and not sure what I really want." I mean "start" as in "never stop, never look back, because even if I make a ‘mistake,' at least I still get to dance."

Do your thing and I'll do mine.
The Universe

Some action shots from the season that was, I’ll share more as I start catching up on life.

Always chasing the horizon.

12/08/2025

11/08/2025

Moments from home and base - one and the same. I want this special place and space to be an extension of all that I am. To be genuine and real, without trying too hard to be anything that it isn’t. To be a place that both calms and inspires anyone who visits. And lastly, to understand what it truly means to work within mother nature and her laws, and survive alongside her - perhaps most importantly, with animals by your side. Nature never rushes, yet everything is accomplished. That’s the overriding lesson, and one I need to keep reminding myself of.

Moments captured by the talented

Always chasing the horizon.

25/07/2025

Ourano.
Intentional. Meaningful. Rare.
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23/07/2025

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

~Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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04/06/2025

A small collection of recent moments in time. Just a glimpse of the blur that has been thus far. There is a reason we refer to our way of doing things as experiences. For they are much more than a ‘hunt’. Constantly evolving, always striving to provide more than the mere trigger pulling experience. Anyone can throw a hunt together, but it’s in the details, it’s in the attention to the art within the process and each day that truly matters at the end of a trip.

I had this vision decades ago, and it is has all slowly come together like a fermenting barrel of wine. Every year we will level up, in all aspects, whilst stealing a sip to see how the vintage is slowly coming along. But never drinking it all, or bottling it just yet.

Reminding guests of the beautiful, intricate connection to the very hills and streams that we get to explore is very close to my heart. This symbiotic relationship is far reaching, and I feel that in its entirety, this painting is only just beginning to take its own unique shape. We all think we are the artists, and oftentimes we are not wrong, but when you are out here, in this patchwork of green, rust, and ochre yellow shades, you soon realise that you are actually the canvas…

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Always chasing the horizon.

12/05/2025

A hard earned lunch high up in the icy winds
With each bite a different type of appreciation
Charcuterie boards representing the season and the slopes
A spicy samoosa to warm you from the inside
Smoked trout pâté from the bountiful streams
All washed down with a crisp white wine
And off we go again

Always chasing the horizon

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06/05/2025

A fine Charles Boswell in 16g, and a walks harvest of the grand Greywing Francolin.

Always chasing the horizon.

15/04/2025

An excerpt from our feature in the Shooting Sportsman:

“If I had to pick a single highlight from the trip, it would have to be spending time with arguably the best set of pointers I’ve hunted behind. The image of those dogs streaking across wild country under endless skies is enduring, as is the memory of waking after a nap to find a sleeping pointer’s head nestled under my arm.

One way or another, we expect to return.”

~Robert Parvin Williams, outdoor writer and sportsman.

Come and experience what truly class Pointers pursuing wild, wily gamebirds is all about in the mystical Highlands.

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Love what you do, do what you love.
Always chasing the horizon.

10/03/2025

"The ideal life would be one where you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you money, you had a hobby that as a byproduct kept you healthy, you had a hobby that as a byproduct made you smarter and more creative."
~ Naval Ravikant

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