Incredibly, the main car park in Drumnadrochit says NO to everyone. Visitors arriving at the tiny Loch Ness side village are shocked to find a sign threatening them upon entry and quoting fines of £5000 – £20,000 (6000 – 24,000 euro) for leaving litter.
A spokesperson for the silent majority told us they agreed with the principle against littering, as all right-minded people would, but “we think it projects a very negative image when all you see as a first greeting is NO in big bright red letters!”
The Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board was unavailable for comment at time of going to press.
Some great news from Drumnadrochit: we are getting a spanking new medical centre to replace the existing surgery on Balmacaan Road which has always been excellent but is now too small to cope with an expanding population and large catchment area.
£1.5 million will be made available over three years starting next year. Read more about it in the Inverness Courier.
Nessie, our famous monster, told this blog that she is delighted at the prospect of even better health care in case she gets poorly. Cryptozoologists and expedition members often put their lives on the line hunting for Nessie and will also benefit from the peace of mind offered by a modern new health facility.
You can often see Mavis and Sheba the world famous Loch Ness Sheep on our Loch Ness Monster Live Cam. Mavis is the black face sheep and Sheba is of the brown and white patch work Jacob breed.
They were very sorry to learn of a comrade’s sad demise when she fell off a cliff earlier today. Methuselina lived on The Isle of Lewis for twenty five years and eleven months making her the ‘world’s oldest sheep’. Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster is also thought to be very sad.
We are sure you will all agree that both Mavis and Sheba will hopefully live on to break Methuselina’s long life record.
Yes folk, it’s official! The Officially Original Loch Ness Live Cam now covers the famous sheep paddock again. Mavis (the black face sheep) and Sheba the patchwork Jacob one are clear to see as they wonder in and out of camera view. Check it out live as you also hunt for Nessie, our famous Loch Ness monster.
A massive haggis arrived at Inverness station on board a train from Kircaldy in Fife and sparked a major incident attended by British transport police. There were fears expressed that it could be a warning of an attack against Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster.More in London’s newspaper The Metro.
Well folks, were having an unexpected hot blast of weather here at Loch Ness. Yesterday the temperature in Inverness was a balmy 12 degrees centigrade around Loch Ness and the same is expected today. Snow was seem down to about two metres above sea level earlier last week so with heating fuel prices at a record high it is great to see the back of the cold weather – at least for awhile.
Some exciting travel data you may want to add to your knowledge:
Stagecoach Group is to trial the UK’s first budget sleeper coach service between Glasgow and London. It’s an extremely exciting development and adds a great new and comfortable dimension to visitors to Inverness and those in seek of its famous Loch Ness Monster, Nessie. The articulated buses offer you a seat and proper sleeping birth, toilet, free wi-fi, on-board refreshments and a complimentary overnight pack containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, a bottle of water, an eye mask and a luggage label.
Prices range from £1 – £40 single and the service travels every night. So, you could, for example, fly to London and take the sleeper bus to Glasgow example and take a relaxing overnight bus to Glasgow and arrive there bright and early. You could come straight to Inverness or spend a day in Glasgow first and travel here later. The Glasgow to Inverness Megabus service takes approximately three hours and, once prices start from £1 each way.
The program is highly informative and puts a postive spin on the monster and avoids the “sad old” bearded debunker men image that has unfortunately surrounded Loch Ness for far too long.
Here at Nessie on the Net we have seen the Loch Ness monster ourselves and even passed a lie detector test administered by a UK government Home Office expert – televised for the Nat Geo documentary.
Cryptozoologist, Professor Kettle, has spent a lifetime searching for elusive creatures – all previously unknown to science. From the Abominable Snowman to the Coelacanth he has travelled across the globe in an endless quest, which some less than generous souls have dubbed “his silly and stupid obsession”. However, the professor is very blasé about his critics:
“they fall into two broad camps”, he said. “Firstly, the bone idle ones who can’t be bothered to get out of a chair to do anything themselves. Secondly, the envious types who resent my unrivalled success tracking down evidence of cryptids – or “unknown creatures – as the layman would call them.
Personally I consider myself a touch eccentric and quite frankly what other people think of me is their problem”.
At this point in our conversation the professor said he would like to introduce another member of his research team, Dr. Pott. It turns out that Pott’s doctorate is in Applied Mathematical Environmental Research and he designs most of the unique and intricate pieces of equipment used to track down the unknown. “He isn’t exactly Scully from the X-Files in looks but he does a really good job” quips Kettle.
Dr. Pott offers us tea and I start to tremble with anticipation. It’s common knowledge within academe that if Professor Kettle respects your work then tea will be served in his unique Nessie shaped tea pot. If he thinks you are mediocre it comes as a tea bag in a mug; the whole thing is a kind of semaphore signal of success or failure.
Well, the door creaked open and a decrepit and wisend old lady brought through the tea tray. And there it was! The real, unique Kettle owned Loch Ness Monster tea pot. I felt pure elation, such that I nearly collapsed. Bizarrely all I could think of was the TV series “The Sopranos” and that this is how it must feel to be made a “made man” by the mafia.
“So this is the genuine Kettle’s tea pot?” was all I managed to stutter; I was too awestruck to say more. “Actually no”, said Professor Kettle. “Dr. Pott originally pointed it out to me in an antiques shop in Forres and I bought it on the spot. But he saw it first so around here it is known as Pott’s pot.”
No matter. I knew that whether it was Kettle’s pot or Pott’s pot I had received the scientific equivalent of a beatification and now I knew that my own academic papers would always be published in the best journals and one day I would stroll before a camera for the National Geographic Channel.
The Loch Ness based Rock Ness music festival has been a great success again. Look out for photos here soon. Nessie the cryptid is said to have been delighted.
