Day Two - Sam’s Day

The Loch Ness Visitors Centre was Sam’s choice and following coffee we headed off. Scrambled eggs on sourdough in Inverness to start the day before heading off to our first stop, Ness Farm.
Lots of “oohing & aahing” at the Highland Cattle, Alpacas and a host of farm animals, Paddy seemed singularly unimpressed at not being allowed in!
On to the the Loch Ness Visitor Centre, Sam and I opted to pay the almost £20 entrance fee to the ‘exhibition’ and it turned out to be good value.
Moving from room to room you watch and listen to a series of films lasting almost an hour that start by explaining the myths origins and then stage by stage debunk most of the images and theories proposed until the last room where visitors are invited to vote either;
I Believe
It’s Possible
It’s Imagination
Our group, along with most groups voted “I Believe” although ever the fence sitter my pin badge says “It’s Possible”.
After surviving the three souvenir shops we left the Visitors Centre and continued south along the Loch edge road until we reached the John Cobb Memorial, another of my choices.
In Weybridge in Surrey where I grew up there was a John Cobb Road, in fact closer to Byfleet at the Brooklands Centre, I’d known about him from our neighbour, Mrs Brooker. She was in her 80’s in the 1960’s and had worked as a waitress at the Brooklands Racetrack in her youth and used to tell us stories about the cars and drivers.
Continuing our road trip, Urquhart Castle was too busy even to get into the car park so we settled for coffee and cake in Inverness before heading home to delicious slo-cooked chilli for dinner.

Another long but hugely enjoyable day.