Loch Ness

Today was the day tour of the Scotish Highlands. We drove 337 miles today, with a couple of stops along the way. Our final destination was Loch Ness. I then hopped on a boat for a "one hour tour". Thankfully the weather cleared up a bit (it rained most of the way up).

Here is a picture of Loch Ness facing northeast (I think...sun was behind us). It's big and the water looks almost black. It is very deep also....almost 600 ft. The boat we were on had a depth meter/fish finder display as well as a dynamically updating display showing the bottom of the Loch WRT the boat.

An interesting rock slide area that we were told was made by a "monster" trying to escape....

This is about as close as I got to seeing a monster in Loch Ness. But that didn't detract from the beauty of the entire area. This is very pretty country similar to the US northwest, but with a lot more Lochs :-)

Tomorrow I'm off to Stirling, where I'll probably visit Stirling castle and the Wallace monument. Bruce, anything you want me to say to your boy William?