We got up early, for us, at 06:45am and it was a lovely summer’s morning. We had hoped to descend the staircase of four locks down to Loch Ness at 08:00 am. Unfortunately, the lock keeper decided to move two locks full of boats ascending the locks first. This took nearly 2 ¾ hours so it was 10:45 am before we entered the fist lock. As a group we were reasonably well organised and the complicated descent of the four locks, plus a swing bridge, was completed by 12:15. However, Ann found it quite tiring, largely because of the large number of spectators who all seemed to want to talk to her as she was trying to concentrate on handling Jomima’s ropes from the side of the locks.
After passing through the swing bridge, we began our journey across the full length of Loch Ness. The Loch is a very long and deep stretch of water. Our depth gauge stopped working at 180m. From our charts, I know that it exceeds 200m in many places – which is over twice as deep as the English Channel. There is more water in Loch Ness than all of the other British reservoirs put together. Much is made locally of the Loch Ness monster – which is obviously their biggest tourist attraction. Unfortunately, I failed to capture anything on camera and we were generally disappointed with Loch Ness. For us it was just a long trip between two relatively uninteresting mountainsides. Fortunately, the trip along the canal the other side made up for it.
After passing through the swing bridge, we began our journey across the full length of Loch Ness. The Loch is a very long and deep stretch of water. Our depth gauge stopped working at 180m. From our charts, I know that it exceeds 200m in many places – which is over twice as deep as the English Channel. There is more water in Loch Ness than all of the other British reservoirs put together. Much is made locally of the Loch Ness monster – which is obviously their biggest tourist attraction. Unfortunately, I failed to capture anything on camera and we were generally disappointed with Loch Ness. For us it was just a long trip between two relatively uninteresting mountainsides. Fortunately, the trip along the canal the other side made up for it.
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