The Loch Ness monster

[Fish the Mod]

My 10 year old son is convinced he can find Nelly. Can anyone suggest a good B&B nearby, is it easy to get a boat ride. We will fly from London either Friday night / Early Saturday morning and be back for School on Monday, Is this long enough? Many Thanks

[jackthehat]

Nelly is big and grey with large ears and a trunk...............and you probably wouldn't need a boat to spot her.

[B00]

Long enough to see it?

People have spent years permanently camped alongside the banks of the loch trying to catch a glimse of it, so i doubt it.

No harm trying though I guess :-)

[ChuckFickens]

the loch ness monster is nessy (or nessie)

Nelly is an elephant.

[ChuckFickens]

(who packed her trunk...........)

[cazzz1975]

and said goodbye to the circus..

[grasscarp]

http://www.scottishac...ndex.com/lochness.php

[rowanwitch]

i am sure at 10 he is still young enough to love the trip though....what a lovely idea

[VHG]

Good luck, because there is a lot of water to look in !

For your info Loch Ness is

25 miles long

1.5 miles wide (widest point)

812 feet deep (deepest point)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness

[Buenchico]

Any 10 year old boy would love the exhilarating Ness Express:
http://www.cruiselochness.com/

See also here:
http://www.lochness-cruises.co.uk/

General information & accommodation links here:
http://www.visitlochness.com

The only direct flights from London to Inverness are with easyJet (from Gatwick and Luton) and FlyBe (from Gatwick). Timetable summary here:
http://hial.rippleffe...mer_Schedule_2010.pdf
Websites here
http://www.easyjet.co...ook/index.asp?lang=en
and here
http://www.flybe.com/

The only practical way to get to most of the available accommodation around Loch Ness would be to hire a car. The only two companies represented at Inverness Airport are Europcar:
http://www.hial.co.uk...parking-and-car-hire/

A site which might interest your son. (Check out all of the links down the left hand side):

19:23 Wed 22nd Sep 2010

[Buenchico]

http://www.loch-ness.org/
Make sure your son takes a camera. We look forward to seeing his startling new photographs of Nessie!
;-)

Chris

[sandyRoe]

During the last Ice Age loch Ness was frozen solid. Where did the monsters go then?