Keith Kellett's Blog – August 2015 Archive (1)

Cruising Loch Ness

If you only know the name of one British lake, it’ll probably be Loch Ness. It’s one of a chain of lochs making up the Great Glen, a massive fault line separating the north of Scotland from the rest of the country, from Fort William in the southwest to Inverness in the northeast.



Sixty miles separate these towns – but, when Thomas Telford dug out the Caledonian Canal joining them, to prevent shipping making the long and hazardous trip around Cape Wrath, he only had to excavate 22…

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Added by Keith Kellett on August 4, 2015 at 10:30pm — No Comments

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