Scottish & Irish Dream Tour

Je-NESSIE

Posted by Leonard And Me , 7.25.2018 1:47 PM

Shortly after returning to the mainland after the Isle of Skye....we began a monster hunt!  The shores of the most famous Loch known to man were beside us -- Loch Ness.

 
If you haven't heard of the Loch Ness Monster....where have you been?  The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, is an aquatic being which reputedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, and is often described as being large in size, with a long neck and one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933.


On August 4, 1933 the Courier newspaper published a report by Londoner George Spicer that several weeks earlier, while he and his wife were driving around the loch, they saw "the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life" trundling across the road toward the loch with "an animal" in its mouth.   The "surgeon's photograph" is reportedly the first photo of the creature's head and neck. Supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London gynecologist, it was published in the Daily Mail on 21 April 1934.  Wilson's refusal to have his name associated with it led to it being known as the "surgeon's photograph".  According to Wilson, he was looking at the loch when he saw the monster, grabbed his camera and snapped four photos. Only two exposures came out clearly; the first reportedly shows a small head and back, and the second shows a similar head in a diving position. The first photo became well-known, and the second attracted little publicity because of its blurriness.