It's the evening of my second full day here and I've already had adventures a plenty. Here are just a few of the highlights so far.
The View Across The Loch
This is my third visit to Kentallen and the view across Loch Linnhe is one of the things that I love about this place and no number of photos will do it justice, but he's one to give you an idea. |
| The view across the loch from Kentallen [Phot: Jack Gilbert] |
Fifteen Minutes of Terror
NASA described the descent of the Curiosity Mars probe as "seven minutes of terror". I had a similar experience going on the Nevis Range cable car yesterday. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the Nevis Range cable car, it's a wonderful feat of engineering. It's just that I have a fear of heights and by their very nature cable cars rely on being quite a way off the ground.It was something I wanted to push myself to do and I'm incredibly pleased with myself for riding it up Aonach Mor. The views were spectacular and well worth it. Here's a photo of the view along with the tweet I managed to fire off to distract myself from my vertigo.
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| Loch Lochy and the Great Glen from Aonach Mor [Photo: Jack Gilbert] |
Loch Ness
And finally, today's exploration took us up to one of the most famous of Scotland's lochs, Loch Ness. This was my second visit there - last year I took a fast RIB ride around it - but this time my appreciation was purely land-based. Sadly, I didn't see the monster, but then again if I had, things could have got complicated, so it's just as well I didn't.
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| A small slice of Loch Ness, but no monster. [Photo: Jack Gilbert] |
So, that's two days down and there are still another four to go! There are more adventures awaiting and I'll try to post and tweet as and when internet access allows!
