The Loch Ness Exhibition Centre and Time to Rest

Woke up to a chilly, very rainy day and were all very glad we had decided that it would be a day to relax, take stock of where we'd been, what we'd bought and what we still wanted to see and do.  We all enjoyed the morning just lazing around the B&B. 

Shortly after noonish we drug our lazy bones out the door (except for Poppa who decided to make a day of it at the B&B) we headed off to Loch Ness Centre.  Like many touristy places here it is good to get a fast track entry ticket and so I had done this online just before going.  When we got there we walked right in, no line up.  So I said to the fellow, "good thing we got fast track tickets".  He chuckled and said that this was the first 2 minutes all morning that there were not 100 people lined up to get in and that 5000 people had already passed through.  That was unbelievable, kinda like Nessie herself :)  The exhibition itself is fairly well done and they talked about how the lake was formed and that there is little in the way of food to support much life, yet alone something as big as Nessie.  There have been extensive sonar and other scientific searches done that have shown some unexplained occurances, but nothing definitive.  Part of the reason it is so difficult is that the Loch is 230 metres deep and very dark.  (They said it is big enough to put the entire population of the world in it 3 times over).  There are thousands of eye witness reports and there have of course been many hoaxes.  You are a little better informed and left to your own opinion on the subject in the end.  The most probable theory seems to be a stray sturgeon from time to time.  When we returned Miriam asked what we thought of the exhibit.  We all agreed what was there was done well and interesting, but there could have been more, especially for the price of admission.  I asked her if they had ever seen anything and she said they had.  Prior to moving here from Holland, they were here on holiday sitting on a hillside with friends visiting when they spotted something that she said behaved most like a seal or an otter.  They watched it for about 30 minutes.  Later when they went back to their accomodations and started doing the math, they knew it had to be much larger than a seal.  Later that week there was an article in the newspaper and people on the other side of the Loch had seen the same thing and it was reported as a proper sighting.  Who knows??  Sells a lot of stuff, if nothing else.