Great Glen 4: Fort Augustus to Invermoriston

I'm at the end of my rest day here in Drumnadrochit, catching up on the past three days. It has been pouring with rain most of the evening so it's a good opportunity to do a bit of stuff inside. 

The walk to Invermoriston from Fort Augustus a few days ago was fairly short, so I decided to take a quick Lech Ness Cruise (50 minutes) before the walk day began, and my walking pal Patrick Davies joined me. The tour guide gave us some believable monster information - i.e. deep sea gigantism causes creature such as pike and eels to grow to unusual sizes at great depth, and these have been seen and caught - and some believable information - i.e. DNA analysis of Loch Ness waters have found a lot of DNA that does not match any known species - and some real twaddle - i.e. it's possible that plesiosaurs may have survived. But everyone around here will also admit that the monster myth os good for business, and so no one is really trying to debunk it nowadays. My own view is that there may be weird deep loch fish species down there is the pitch dark that almost never surface - but not the size of a plesiosaur. 

Then, we got going to Invermoriston, which is the nicest town I have seen so far in the whole trip. It has an excellent Telford Bridge (the engineer Thomas Telford is big up here), and a much less touristy vibe than other towns, like the one I am in now for example. 

The actual walk itself was decent, scenic, and not too tiring, being about half the distance of the walk I did the next day. I had an excellent meal of mussels and a cheese platter at the Glenmoriston Arms, which was a highlight of the trip meal-wise, bested only by my friend Anita's vegetarian extravaganza, back in Tring in July.

The next day was much harder.