We are staying in a great apartment in Inverness, although luckily our friends have a car cause its not that close to down town. Today we took a bus and cruise of Loch Ness. We started off with catching the bus at the bus station and driving toward the lock. N the bus we heard more confusing history on this royal family and that and the battles between Catholics and Protestants. Not sure how anyone keeps that stuff strait especially when there's Mary X then Mary Y and James I or James IV.
Anyway first stop on the tour was a stone circle. It was small stones and in the middle was a kinda dome thing that I guess was a grave. So I don't know bout everyone else but I thought stone hedge was this unique thing. But it's not, there are hundreds around the British isles. This one was nice cause you could get up close and really check it out. It was in a filed Amundsen sheep near by.
From here we stopped at the Loch Ness visitor center. It's amazing how many people/scientists have worked to determine if there is a Loch Ness monster. They have done numerous sonar expeditions, submarine dives and habitat research. Doesn't seem like a dinars our size creature could live in the loch but some thing may have come in from the ocean at some point in its long past.
After the visitor center we went and checked out an old old castle. Very neat looking on a little peninsula on Loch Ness. You could walk up one tower and into the dungeons. The landscape in this part of the country is so green and vibrant. I bet it's like Seattle or Oregon, I don't think they get sunny days very often here. From the castle we took a boat back to Inverness. Loch Ness is one of a few lochs that are connected naturally and with mans assistance to create a shortcut from the North Sea to the Atlantic. Like the Mississippi it has Loch and Dams where it takes you from one water heigh to another. We went from Loch Ness to a canal and had to drop a little bit. One thing I noticed was a nice looking bike path that ran the same path as the canal.
Almost forgot to mention the hairy cows. I wouldn't normally say a cow is cute but these guys really are neat. After the tour since we were in town we tried to stop at some local shops and get some meat and food but everything closes between 5 and 530. What I don't get is if you work all day when do you go get your food? Maybe they work different hours, not sure. Anyway they have the kinda Walmart style shop that's open 24 hours so we ended up going there.
Tomorrow we are thinking reindeer. We'll see. Oh and as I was going thru the pictures here is a water sign and a street sign we saw today that was different.
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