Scotland is a very beautiful country. Its similar to Ireland with its abundance of grasslands and sheep but Scotland is also blessed with thick forests and impressive mountains. We got a chance to see some of the mountains on our drive through the highlands to Inverness. They were all covered in snow, not a good sign. Luckily we are scheduled to be in Rome in a few days.
We got into Inverness around 2pm and headed right over to our B&B to drop off our bags. When we got in the room we looked through some of the tourist pamphlets and realized that the Loch Ness tours ran the last tour at 3! We hussled out the door and went to the tourist info center to see if maybe there was another company that had a later tour. The tourist center guy said we had only 5 minutes to catch the last tour so we sprinted out the door and down the street, luckily making it just before the tour bus departed.
Inverness...raining as usual...
The bus left the station and the driver gave everyone a nice history lesson on Inverness and Scotland on the way to the Loch. Some interesting facts about Loch Ness is that it is about 735' at its deepest and the water gets very deep only a few feet from the shoreline. The Loch is so deep that you could fill it with the entire worlds population 3 times over! The depth helps the Loch maintain a constant 42-45F temperature year round.
The bus arrived at a local dock where we boarded a ferry that took us on a 30 minute ride on Loch Ness and dropped us off at Urqhart Castle, a set of ruins that use to be a strategic stronghold along Loch Ness.
We saw a double rainbow!
And Nessie!
Unfortunately we didn't catch a glimpse of the REAL Nessie. There are have been stories and sitings of her from as far back as 500 AD but she just didn't feel like swimming in the rain while we were there.
We made our way back to Inverness, had dinner and a bottle of wine in town, and turned in for the night. The next morning we got up, ate entirely too much at breakfast and took a bus to Edinburgh.
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