Well we did not find Nessie!

 One wit remarked it because the monster did not want to get sunburned - it was verri sunny.

Beautiful day on the loch, and the water was very peaty and dark. We watched the sonar show the changing depths, the plunging steep sides of the loch and the very flat bottom, full of millennia of sediment. And of course the views of Urquhart Castle from the water were special.

A clever animation had the bartender tell the story of the Monster phenomenon - we’ve all seen the documentaries. The debunked elephant foot ashtray, the submarine toy topped with a long necked creature toy, the sonar find of an old movie prop - now that was a moment. 

All the naturist-based reasons why a large reptile could not survive in a verra (that is Scots for very, not a typo) cold loch, nor survive without much fish stock in the loch - but on the other hand, maybe the clan of monsters is always eating them!

All the characters involved over the time of the monster obsession came into view on three sides of a hotel bar, interacting and following each other. We passed through different locations, including one inside a submerged vehicle, where the screens became large portholes. Verra enjoyable. Wait to see the green screen shots!

Not seen, but imagined in one of the animations.

The whole Nessie industry is huge, occasionally tasteful and certainly a boon to the local economy. Sadly I did miss Nessieland although it was but 200m down the road. I supported the economy with a 4 photo souvenir photo of me with Nessie, thinking 4 nice shots in one booklet. Sadly one shot per booklet, so three in the bin. They did have a verra nice gift shop.

Daniel and I went there in 2008, and some of the built landscape was familiar. The whole Nessie Exhibition is in an old building after all, but it had a crisp modern feel.

The afternoon was more cerebrally, and viscerally spent at Urquhart Castle.