Loch Lomond & the Trossachs
Loch Lomond is an area close to everyone's heart. It is 23 miles long, 5 miles wide, more than 600ft deep, and lies 22ft above sea level and covers 18,000 acres. The rugged highland peaks with hidden Glens and Passages are steeped in history and heritage. Full of romance and mystique Loch Lomond has inspired Photographers throughout the centuries.Earliest inhabitants arrived during the New Stone Age- 3500BC, the earliest inhabitants of the Loch shores were the Caledoni tribes or "people of the woods." Traces of their movements and culture can be gathered today if we care to take a close look at the many burial cairns, free standing stones, stone circles, and old cup and ring carvings which still bound the area. The cairns, the stones and the markings belong to the Neolithic period.
Loch Ness Part of the Great Glen or Glen Mor in Gaelic, a scar like fault line which runs over 60 miles from Inverness in the north to Fort William in the south. It is made up of 3 lochs, Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness, with Loch Ness being by far the largest.
The loch is a tectonic lake resulting from a movement in the earths crust. Around 500 million years ago tremors opened up the crack that is now Loch Ness as the land to the north moved around 65 miles south westerly.
During the last ice age, which ended about 10 to 12 thousand years ago, the whole area was covered in 4 thousand feet of ice. In fact the only land mark would have been Ben Nevis to the south. It was this ice which gauged out the trough that loch ness lies in. Tremors can still be felt around the loch, the last one in December 1997. The hills surrounding the loch are still rising by 1mm per year. It was herd to be said by one of the
The Loch Lomond Scottish Whisky Distillery {Two hour visit} Freedom and whisky gang the gither! {Robert Burns}
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