Gianfranco and Veronica left this morning and headed south where they may or may not have met with Mike Wilson. I think he was keen to, and Mike had asked, but as they were travelling around virtually all of the UK, communications were not perhaps easiest to administer.
And so to the business of the day. Alma and I had some business in Inverness at 11.30 am, the nature of which will be revealed on Day 5, so watch this space. The business over, we headed out from Inverness down Loch Ness and arrived at Drumnadrochit where we had outrageously expensive sandwiches in the Nessie Cafe. Fortunately the place redeemed itself on the Nessie Experience thing with AV presentations on the history of the loch and what Nessie may or may not be. Jostein's wife Vera suggested a boat voyage would be the natural conclusion to the trip and we duly set out on an hour's excursion over the deepest bit. Here's some useless facts: Loch Ness is: - 22 odd miles long by a mile wide at it's widest and nearly 300 metres deep at the deepest (note British lunacy at mixing imperial and metric measurements - only we could do this....) - is by far the largest freshwater supply in the UK, containing more water than all other freshwater supplies in England, Wales and Scotland put together - contains enough volume to swallow every human being on Earth 3 times over - a license to print money for local businesses - great to just sit and watch over.....just in case..... Many photographs were taken on the trip and we were treated such charms as a pair of F-15 fighters screaming along at warp 9 and 63 feet, a few other boats containing people taking photographs of us - as we were them - and awesome views of castle ruins, picturesque reflections, and the back of Jostein's head as he wielded his PZ-1 and Sigma 70-200 f/2.8.... Inverness itself seems a charming town and warrants further exploration on foot, which we may get the chance to do tomorrow. Upcoming highlights will hopefully include a funicular railway ride to the top of Cairngorm Mountain, doyen of the ski-set in the winter months, given over to fair- weather photographers like us at this time of year ;-) It's such a beautiful place and the people are all so friendly. I think my SO summed it up quite well. "Hmmm", she mused. "I could live here". Coming from her, praise indeed. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
