Loch ness
Our first view of Loch Ness on our way to Castle Urquhart.
Tree-eighty
A running joke we had when we went on this Highlands tour was from an episode of South Park where Chef’s parents keep encountering the Loch Ness monster, asking them for “tree-fiddy“, three dollars and fifty cents.
The price of admission to Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness? £3.80. Coincidence? I think not.
Castle Urquhart
Castle Urquhart and Loch Ness, through the consruction of a visitor center.
Urquhart window
The Loch and hillside, framed by a castle window.
Nessie!
Look! It’s Nessie!
That patch of flat water in the center-left of the photo is where the hump was!
Or maybe that was just a ripple….
Loch silhouette
While we were at Loch Ness, it stopped drizzling and the rainclouds started to break up. The rest of the castle ruins are shown in silhouette.
James, Christina and Katy
Zoomed in from below, i was able to get a photo of James, Christina and Katy at the top level of Urquhart Castle.
James and Christina are on the left; Katy is on the lower right.
Amy and Chad at Urquhart
Amy and me. She was all squinty from the sun coming out. :)
Sun break
Sun break on the Loch.
Thistle windows
Defensively-pointy and aesthetically-pleasing thistle-shaped window grates.
Picture Perfect
A picture-perfect photo. Postcard anyone?
Nessie rock
In the construction rubble was this piece of Old Red sandstone was this serpentine calcite inclusion that looks suspiciously like a certain lake resident.