The Great Glen, part of a fault line, 350 miles long, over a mile in vertical height and up to ten miles wide. Loch Ness from Dores Beach under a wonderfully moody sky.

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Spring 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 350-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,
that summer was not so far away!
   

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Dores (show map)

Taken on: April 11, 2008

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D, f/22.0, 1/50 sec, 65mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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