Inverness and Lock Ness

Inverness and Loch Ness are near Findhorn (or vica versa), so we decided to take a little trip to see if we could find the critter in the depths. We booked a trip with a Jacobite tour that took us to the 4000 year old Corrimony burial cairn, the Urquhart Castle, and a boat trip down the lake and into the canal. It took all day and we loved it. Sometimes it's easier to just relax and be a tourist.

The Nessie expose was fairly honest about the whole thing being a hoax, but you might as well look, because you never know...


Corrimony cairn appeared very primitive, just a pile of rocks, except the center held a room with a dry laid wall and a tunnel door. Also there was a stone circle around the outside. I'll wager it was originally more ordered.

The Urquhart Castle was a ruin, destroyed by the last British occupant as he left to keep the Gaelic's from the western Islands from using it. Typical British slash and burn administration.

The trip down the lake was uneventful, that is we didn't have any Nessie sightings.

The canal was pretty, much larger and better maintained than the Irish canals. There was quite a bit of traffic.