Blogging from A to Z Challenge: N is for Ness. Loch Ness and Nessie

Posted April 15, 2013 by Willa Blair in Uncategorized / 5 Comments

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a-to-z-letters-nI’m in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the month of April.  I need your help!  To meet this challenge, I’ll be doing one post a day, working through the alphabet.

Your job is to comment and keep me motivated!  Let me know you’re out there and following along.  Can she make it?  Will she?  Of course she will!  With you as my cheering section, I won’t be stumped by J or Q or even X.

So without further ado, here is today’s post.

L is for Loch Ness.  Loch Ness is Loch Ness is the second largest lake in Scotland by surface area, but largest in volume due to its depth.  It is 755 feet deep and is said to contain more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. 

Loch Ness with Urquart Castle, Wikimedia Commons by Sam Fentress
Loch Ness with Urquart Castle, Wikimedia Commons by Sam Fentress

It is also said to contain a monster.  Hoaxed_photo_of_the_Loch_Ness_monster
Whether it does or doesn’t, we’ve all heard of Nessie and likely seen this picture from the 1930s, which purports to be proof of its existence.  Hoax?  Probably.  But every visitor to Loch Ness hopes to catch their own glimpse.

Nessie has even been in the news lately.  The Daily Mail article shows recent photos that claim to be the Loch Ness Monster.  What do you think?

And there will be a commemorative boat trip to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first Loch Ness Monster sighting.  I wonder if Nessie prefers beer or Scotch?

Interested in finding the other nearly 2000 blogs participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge?  Click on the title, then scroll down to find the sign-up list.

5 responses to “Blogging from A to Z Challenge: N is for Ness. Loch Ness and Nessie

  1. stephscottil

    I kind of like the idea of Nessie, even if it’s not true. A mysterious monster in the lake–ominous.

  2. Nessie, Bigfoot, the yeti, I absolutely approve of the possibility. Had to laugh at the comments on the Daily Mail article, “that’s a hippo”. Made by people who have never been to Scotland / know nothing about hippos because the coldest deepest loch in Scotland hosting hippos? Now THAT would be a story.

  3. Tina B

    I love stories like Nessie. 🙂
    I hope one day I can travel and see the lake and maybe the Loch Ness Monster in person.

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