I’m soaking up more and more of the Scottish history everyday and my recent day tour of the highlands certainly erected foundational pillars of my understanding of Scottish culture.
Although a day is clearly not enough time to really appreciate what your seeing and learning, the twelve hour drive with a few photo opportunity stops definitely whets the appetite for future missions into the satisfyingly-snowy mountains, loch-scattered lands, stag-staggered expanses and antiquated villages.
The main destiantion of the tour was Loch Ness but alas we caught no sight of Nessie. There is actually a one million pound reward for anyone with conclusive evidence of the creature. Strangley enough, high tech sonar equipment has revealed not one but seventeen large non-stationary objects in the loch!!! The majority of research into the anomaly actually points towards a strong likelyhood of a family of pleisiosaurs living in the loch though the loch at its deepest point is 230 meters and so murky and dark that the creatures eyes would be too light sensitive to even consider surfacing on anything less than a stormy midnight.
By the end of the day we’d clocked up over 520 km passing through the Trossachs made famous by Rob, the looming mountains of Rannock Moor, valleys and scenescapes of Glen Coe of the infamous Campbell massacres, past Fort William and Ben Nevis ( Britains highest mountain) through Great Glen to Loch Ness.
After lunch we went past Fort Augustus through Monarch of the Glen, Loch Laggan in our peripherals and over the lonely doldrums of Drummochter Pass.
On a more profound note, I made eggs and toast for brekky the other day and this is what I got!!!
Thompson at the Forest
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Aye Thomas, great country side up there. Sounds like you took a similar route to that which I did. Really beautiful countryside and those freakin hairy coos, you just want to jump on their backs and ride them home. I checked out the Isle of Sky which you might dig as well. Keep on trekking old bean!