![]() To her but thought better of it and instead told Betsy and Emily the Ness with that monster swimming around beneath me.” I wanted to respond Those fools out on the water! I would never go out in a boat on Loch Shore from the castle and, from behind us, I heard a woman say, “Look at Other visitors were now coming down to the We watched theīoats out on the water and the high, green mountains rising up into the Their sails bright white, skimming across the surface. The water sparkled brightly in the sun and there were boats, Has this monster reputation and is so often depicted as dark, dreary,Īnd gloomy. Surrounded by the towering slopes of the mountains of the Great Glen.īefore we roamed around the castle we went out through the main gate andĭown to the shore of the lake. Unfortunate since the lake is bright and beautiful, long and wide, You say “Loch Ness” and “Monster” follows naturally. We ascended by car from the lowlands, leaving behind the large cities and driving through wide-open fields of grazing sheep below the high crags of sloping mountains under a broad, blue sky. We settled at a B&B in the center of the city of Inverness and then set out to explore one of the best known and most visited sites of the many in the area: Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. On this trip through the Highlands, as on most, Betsy and Emily (my wife and daughter) were my travel mates. Castle ruins and old stone farmhouses speak of battles won and lost, generations living and dying, the whole history of the land telling its tale from now-quiet fields and lakes as a visitor goes winding along sharply banked roads rising steadily up to suddenly careen down into hollows and rise again. The area is also among the most resonant with the past and every other stream, lake, hill, or valley has its own story to tell of Scottish heroes, heroines, mysterious monsters, and simple everyday life. The Scottish Highlands are among the most impressive landscapes in the world with some of the most famous sites – Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness, Culloden Battlefield, Clava Cairns – as well as looming mountains, deep glens, and winding rivers. ![]() ![]() The story of the Loch Ness Monster originates in the 7th-century CE work of a monk named Adomnan. 13th-16th centuries CE) by Loch Ness, Inverness, Scotland / Photo by Betsy Mark, AHE, Creative Commons The ruins of Urquhart Castle (present structure c.
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