A top flight shinty club is hoping that winning a community minibus will tackle their transport turmoil.
Members of Kinlochshiel Shinty Club have to travel up to 400 miles for some of their matches during the season.
As members of the Marine Harvest Premiership, the team has games several hours away at Oban and Tighnabruiach in Argyll.
For the past year the club, which is based at Kirkton, Balmacara, used a local bus but this season they are being forced to make their own way to the games by car.
The club is one of hundreds of organisations which have signed up to win the minibus in the Press and Journal’s competition.
The £37,000 bus competition has been sponsored by North Sea company Nexen Petroleum and will go to one lucky school group, team or club in the Press and Journal circulation area in September.
The shinty club was created in 1958 after a merger of teams from Kintail, Lochalsh and Glenshiel.
Kinlochshiel Shinty Club has a first string in the top league and reserves in the north division two.
There is also an under-17 and an under-14 team, who also must be taken to and from matches across the region.
Club fundraiser Katherine Loades said having a minibus of their own would be “sheer joy” for the team and mean an end to their travel problems.
She said: “Having the ability to transport our youngsters would be the best gift the shinty club and all the other clubs in the community could ever receive as current arrangements vary from week to week and are not dependable in this remote area.”
Her husband, Keith, a former player, said Kinlochshiel is punching above its weight.
This year is its second in the premier league after winning promotion in 2013 – when they completed the season unbeaten.
The club has previously won the Balliemore Cup twice and the Sutherland Cup.
Several players have also played for the national team in the past.
If they win, the club also plans to share the bus with other groups in the remote community.
Clubs which could benefit include Lochalsh Junior Pipe Band and Alison Stoddart’s School of Highland Dancing, as well as the local Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies.
Their future plans also include building a new shinty pitch, at a cost of £370,000.
Mr Loades said that it would be one of the best in the country when it is completed.
The community is now fundraising to build new changing rooms.