Monster van Loch Ness

We’re going to tell you something about the lake Loch Ness and about the monster of Loch Ness.

The lake Loch Ness. The lake is in the middle of Scotland. In the area of Highland. The lake is about 40 km long and it is 1,5 km wide. And at some places is the lake 230 m deep. The lake is the greatest of Scotland and one of the deepest of Scotland. It’s 15 m above sea level. The water in the lake is comming from 8 different rivers 1and 40 streams. Here you can see a map of the lake.

The neighborhood of the lake. The area around the lake is very beautiful with roughly and steep mountains. And with a forested bank. In the neighborhood of the lake there is a ruin from a castle called Urquhart Castle. That ruine is 8 ages old. The castle was one of the biggest castles in Scotland. In 1692 the castle was destroyed. The lookout of the ruins is one of the most visited tourist places in Scotland. Every day there are coming hundreds of people to this place. In the neighborhood of the loch are still 2 famous forts. Fort August and Fort William, they are both on the southward of the lake. Near the lake is a memorial stone for John Cobb, who died in 1952 on the lake. Because he wanted to be the fasted man of the world. That’s why he went very fast with a boat on the water. Before he died on the lake he had a speed of 331 km a hour. Now we show you a video about the lake and the neighborhood of the lake.

The monster
Some people claim that there is already more than 1000 years a monster in the lake: the Monster of Loch Ness. People call the monster Nessie. About different observations, the monster is very big, 6 meters long. He has a long neck, a small head and some bulges on his back. (plaatje!!!!) Nobody is sure that Nessie is alive. Some people say that the creature is a monster but others say it’s a prehistorical reptile. For example a plesiosaurus. Those animals lived from 205 until 65 million years ago. Scientists who believe the monster is really alive, gave him a Latin name: Nessitera Rhombopteryx.

Observations of the monster
From 565 there are thousand observations of people who think the saw Nessie. But in 1933 the rumor that there was a monster in the lake came in the journal.

The modern story starts when miss en mister Mckay came back to their house in Drumnadorchit by Loch Ness. This was in 1933. They saw an enormous creature in the water. They said that it looks like a whale. This was the begin that people really know that there was a monster in the lake.

There are many photos from the monster or the creature of Loch Ness. The first photo was made in 1933. One of the famous was the second photo ever made , by a London’s doctor Kolonel Robert Kenneth Wilson. After that there are still many other photo made but they are not so sharp. This is that photo. (video) There was also a man who made a very sharp photo. But a year before his dead he said that the photo wasn’t real. Because it was an inflatable animal (=opblaasbeest) which he puts himself in the water. The most photos came from visitors of the lake. There are a lot of people who said that they have seen the monster. One of them was Bill Kinder, he saw the monster in April 1996. He said : “it was a shining black thing what I saw, it looks like the skin of a seal. I didn’t saw a head, but it could only to be what the people called the monster of Loch Ness. He saw a ten meters long line in the water. He did drive slower and saw a black thing what was coming above the water level. At first he thought that it was a rock but it wasn’t and he thought it was the monster.

In the car behind Bill were sitting Yurong Ling from London with his wife and a friend. They saw a long line in the water too and two bulges. Yurong said that he couldn’t say exactly what it was. But it could possibly that it was a boat. An experiment explained that there wasn’t any boat on the lake.

In 1960 pilot Tim Dansdale made a video of Nessie. On the video you can see a moving thing in the water.

Some people are searching many years for the monster, one of them is Robert Rines. He search since 1972 to Nessie. He never had a clear photo but on one of his underwaterphotos you can see a fin of an animal. Maybe it’s Nessie. There were in 1933 people who wanted to see Nessie. They made a cage for the monster to catch him. This is a picture from the cage.

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