Loch Ness with Spring snow on Meall fhuar-Mhonaidh and nearby peaks above Urquhart Bay, as evening light slowly fades, Inverness-shire, Scotland.

Commentary.

 

Spring snow in the Highlands.

South-West from Dores beach this image shows nearly the whole length of Loch Ness.

It certainly shows twenty of the twenty-five miles of its length

from Fort Augustus to Abban Water and Loch Dochfour.

 

The three-hundred and fifty-mile fault line of which it is a part,

extending from the north part of the Moray Firth to Ireland,

reaches a vertical height of over a mile, when adding the height of Ben Nevis to the depth of Loch Ness.

At Urquhart Bay the chasm created by tectonic movement and subsequent glaciers, reaches two miles in width.

 

In this view, Urquhart Bay, is seen on the right,

just below the snowy heights of Meall-Fhuar Mhonaidh, at 700 metres or 2,300 feet.

 

On this day it was no more than a giant mill-pond

but in misty conditions, as darkness descends,

its mood can become malevolent, sinister and un-nerving.

Whether prehistoric cryptids swim in its murky, peaty waters

or not, it can stir the blood and the imagination.

 

Today, peaceful and full of promise,

spring was here!

 

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