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  Loch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a sea loch, which may be a firth, fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet.
The anglicised form of loch in Ireland is lough.
Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is Loch Ness, although there are other large examples such as Loch Awe, Loch Lomond and Loch Tay.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loch   (394 words)

  
 Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a mysterious and unidentified animal or group of creatures said to inhabit Loch Ness, a large deep freshwater loch near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
Rumours of a monster or animal living in the loch are claimed by believers to have been known for several centuries, though others have questioned the accuracy or relevance of such tales, which were generally unheard of before the 1960s when a strong wave of interest in legitimizing Nessie's 1930s-based history began.
Moreover, the loch was created as the result of geologically recent glaciation and was frozen solid during recent ice-ages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster   (3865 words)

  
 Loch Ness Monster - Crystalinks
The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called "Nessie" or "Ness" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a creature or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a deep freshwater loch (lake) near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland.
Rumors of a monster, or animal, living in the loch are claimed by believers to have been known for several centuries, though others have questioned the accuracy and reliability of such tales, which were generally unknown before the 1960s.
Loch Ness is located in the North of Scotland and is one of a series of interlinked lochs which run along the Great Glen.
www.crystalinks.com /loch_ness.html   (2453 words)

  
 LOCH NESS MONSTER, Nessie - CoverUps.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie by the locals, is said to live in the large Loch Ness Lake in Scotland.
Loch Ness Lake is 22 miles long, about a mile wide, and at it's deepest point it is 950 feet deep.
A type of "Tullimonstrum gregarium, a creature with a shape of a submarine, with a broad tail." Holiday argued that these creatures were in ages past all over England, and were the basis for the dragon legends.
www.coverups.com /lochness.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond is only one of the many places where Santa Cruz gets its drinking water.
Loch Lomond watershed land is a reserve which is protected and is not used by people.
At Loch Lomond, it means that you don't leave any litter or trash out in the recreation area, along the shore, or on the lake.
www.baymoon.com /~juniorrangerprogram/onlineworkbook.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Loch Ness - Just Adventure + Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, the developers of the game obviously did their homework, as it is quite evident that the Manor and its surroundings are actually a graphical reproduction of the famous Castle Urquhart, the existence of which historians can date back to the 13th century.
One final point would be to say that the Loch Ness game begins with the arrival of Alan on December 17th and culminates with the conclusion of the story on December 21st, so as you play Loch Ness you should keep the historical significance of this date in mind.
Playing the Game: Loch Ness is played from the 1st person perspective, except when the game goes into one of its many video sequences, when you will observe the action by viewing Alan in the 3rd person as he interfaces with his environment and other characters.
www.justadventure.com /reviews/LochNess/LochNessReview.shtm   (1953 words)

  
 The Loch, Loch Lomond, Scotland
The Loch is 24 miles long and five miles wide and at its deepest point is some 600 feet deep.
Loch Lomond must be the worlds most famous Loch and has been much written about, both in song and verse.
The Loch is crossed by the Highland Boundary Fault and exhibits the physical characteristics of both highland and Lowland Scotland.
www.loch-lomond.net /theloch/theloch.html   (127 words)

  
 Discover Loch Ness Cruise, Boat Trip and Guided Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It leaves Loch Ness at the Bonar Narrows, separates from the canal at Loch Dochfour SATPIC 1 Then continues its way to the firths of Moray and Beauly through gravel beds deposited by the glaciers of the last ice age and upon which Inverness now stands.
It is lovely to see the loch in brilliant sunshine, but I always feel that the first encounter with the world's most famous body of freshwater should be in murky, overcast or even drizzly conditions when it seems to exert a heavy and oppressive presence.
The road bends away from the loch at Invermoriston and there is a sharp bend at the village where the road to the Isle of Skye departs from the A82 to Fort Augustus.
www.loch-ness.com /sections/lochnesstour/lochnesstour.html   (5403 words)

  
 Fishing on Loch Awe
Flies should be of the wet variety (10–16), of standard or loch pattern and in harmony with the months applicable to hatching flies.
The aim of the Protection Order is to ensure that all fishing is done in a legal manner, to protect all species of fish against illegal fishing, to improve existing fish stocks and to enforce all laws and by-laws pertaining to fishing and the surrounding shorelines.
At the end of 2000, the LAIA announced that it had organized the funding of a brown trout hatchery for Loch Awe (to be managed by the contract development officer, Nick Bevan, whose funding is also covered by the LAIA), as well as a habitat improvement scheme in one of the major spawning burns.
www.loch-awe.com /fish   (790 words)

  
 Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Beneath Loch Ness (2002)
Considering that the Loch Ness monster is one of the most recognized enigmas in the world, it is relatively unrepresented in the world of cult movies.
A group of scientists are on the bottom of the loch when a fissure opens and Professor Egan, the man leading the expedition, falls to his death.
So the killings on the Loch continue and our heroes take it upon themselves, along with a local man (Patrick Bergin) who lost his son and boat to the monster years before, to kill the non-Loch Ness Monster that is swimming around Loch Ness taking bites out of the real Loch Ness Monster.
www.stomptokyo.com /movies/b/beneath-loch-ness.html   (1804 words)

  
 Nessie on the Net! Live Cam - the Highlands, Loch Ness, Scotland. Lock Ness
The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau (LNIB) were active during the 1960’s and early 1970’s (weird beards were in fashion back then!) and a large team of dedicated individuals kept a more or less constant vigil over the loch.
Loch Ness plunges to a depth of over 250m (750 feet) and the crushing pressure and pitch fl water has made investigation by diving more or less impossible.
Good books about Loch Ness are available and this website suggests that visitors consider saving their money and bypassing Historic Scotland’s rip-off Urquhart Castle (now greatly spoiled by commercial development) and stop at one of the many free lay-bys available along the A82 Inverness Fort William Road.
www.lochness.co.uk /livecam   (808 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Loch: Books: Paul Zindel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fifteen year old Loch (nicknamed that because he claimed to see the Loch Ness monster during a family trip in Scotland when he was a toddler), his little sister, Zaidee, and his girlfriend, Sarah, join their dads on an expedition to search for a monster in a Vermont lake.
Loch remembers what happed that night he was waiting for supper to get done so he went for a walk down by the lake.
Loch is the main character and is the first to disover the beasts.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786851503?v=glance   (1717 words)

  
 NOVA Online | The Beast of Loch Ness | Birth of a Legend
From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around Loch Ness, it is clear the Picts were fascinated by animals, and careful to render them with great fidelity.
The exception is a strange beast with an elongated beak or muzzle, a head locket or spout, and flippers instead of feet.
But the modern legend of Loch Ness dates from 1933, when a new road was completed along the shore, offering the first clear views of the loch from the northern side.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lochness/legend.html   (928 words)

  
 Loch Ness Monster, Nessie
The Loch Ness "monster" -- affectionately known as "Nessie" -- is an alleged plesiosaur-like creature living in Loch Ness, a long, deep lake near Inverness, Scotland.
Adrian Shine, head of the Loch Ness Project, once said the monster could be a Baltic sturgeon, a primitive fish with a snout and spines which can grow up to nine feet long and weigh in at around 450 pounds.
Shine, who has been studying the Loch Ness story for some twenty-five years, now thinks that what people see when they think they see the "monster" is actually an underwater wave.
www.skepdic.com /nessie.html   (2395 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The Loch Ness Monster
A recent attempt to find the monster occurred in October, 1987 when 20 cruisers methodically swept the Loch with sonar equipment bouncing sound waves from the surface down to the bottom and electronically recording any contacts.
Even though most scientists believe the likelihood of a monster is small, they keep an open mind as scientists should and wait for concrete proof in the form of skeletal evidence or the actual capture of such a creature.
The Smithsonian has no scientist on staff directly involved in efforts to find the Loch Ness monster and has no pamphlet or brochure available for general distribution on this subject.
www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmnh/lochness.htm   (442 words)

  
 Free Loch Ness Inquirer Ezine
My Loch Ness guided tour has been going very well, although I didn't operate it in the peak of the summer as I was assisting again with the Borlum Farm to Urquhart Castle shuttle.
Most of these ideas were based either on ignorance of the loch or its natural history or on a complete lack of knowledge of aquatic animals in general.
Actually Loch Ness is not made of the types of rocks in which tunnels and caves are usually found anyway and sonar soundings show that the bottom is very flat and featureless.
www.loch-ness.org /sections/themystery/evidencepages/inquirer4.html   (7729 words)

  
 Free Loch Ness Inquirer Ezine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dan Scott Taylor visited Loch Ness in Viperfish, the yellow submarine, back in 1969 and was planning a return visit with his new submarine, Nessa in the summer of this year.
Adrian Shine has long been sceptical about monsters in the loch, and even from my days as co-founder and then managing director of the Centre, he has insisted that the public would be interested as much in the loch as in the monster.
Also, Loch Morar had a very irregular profile and was not suited to sonar whereas Loch Ness had a very regular trench-like profile perfect for scanning sonar.
www.loch-ness.com /sections/themystery/evidencepages/inquirer.html   (3768 words)

  
 LOCH LOMOND, Accommodation, Loch Lomond, Scotland
Loch-lomond.net provides a wealth of information on Loch Lomond and the surrounding area intending to bring as much information as possible to tourists and the local communities.
Loch Lomond presents the perfect holiday location, set amidst one of Scotland’s most idyllic and unspoilt areas with the largest expanse of fresh water in Britain and the backdrop of the mountains looming beyond.
It is also ideally situated for touring within Scotland with The Highlands to the north of the Loch, the West Coast and Islands a short drive away and Central Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh to the east.
www.loch-lomond.net   (140 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Loch speed limit plans scuttled
Officials at the Loch Lomond National Park Authority have abandoned plans for a speed restriction across the main body of the loch.
The speed limit for the majority of the loch would remain at 56mph.
Loch Lomond National Park Authority chairman Gillie Thompson denied officials had been forced into a U-turn, insisting instead that a balance had to be struck.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/4520418.stm   (341 words)

  
 Loch Ness Guide to Foyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This side of the loch is far less populated and the country is wilder and more tranquil than the busy north side.
At Foyers we regain the banks of Loch Ness, but not before first stopping in the village to walk the few metres along the path marked for the Falls of Foyers.
Beside the loch at Foyers is the Hydro Electric pumping station.
www.ipw.com /lochness/html/foyers.html   (670 words)

  
 Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, Monster Evidence and Loch Ness Information Site
It is to Loch Ness where myriad researchers, professional and amateur, from all walks of life, have flocked with their cameras and sonars, hopes, fears and aspirations to solve the greatest mystery on Earth.
Loch Ness investigations have included lures, fish baits, exploding light bulbs, submarines, scanning sonars, echo sounders, telephoto cameras, underwater cameras with strobe flashes, movie cameras, video and, now, digital cameras too.
Unlike other commentators on the Loch Ness Monster, some of whom should know better, I have not been afraid to take poor researchers to task and tell the truth about their activities.
www.loch-ness.org   (695 words)

  
 The Loch Ness Mystery
Loch Ness is 23 Miles long, 1 Mile wide and averages 700 feet deep, with some parts going down to 754 feet.
According to Roy Mackel in his book "The Monsters of Loch Ness" 85% of "good" eyewitness reports take place in early morning, just the time when the weather conditions make visibility the most deceptive on the loch, making common wildlife look larger.
In the Sixties when the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau maintained a constant look out over the summer months, the number of sightings and photographs were less than for any 10 year period before this.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/lesj/ness.htm   (773 words)

  
 Scotch Whisky from Loch Lomond Distillers Finest Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery
Nestling by the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond our family-owned Scotch whisky distillery takes its name and its exquisitely pure water from this most picturesque and celebrated of all Scotland's lochs.
The ever-mindful attention of our managers ensures that only the choicest ingredients are selected, then allowed to mature undisturbed within the finest oak barrels, crafted within the distillery by our very own coopers.
Here at Loch Lomond we produce the unique, 'Loch Lomond Single Grain', which is a blend of single malt and grain whiskies, all produced in this distillery.
www.lochlomonddistillery.com   (578 words)

  
 Loch Raven Dam Rehabilitation - City of Baltimore, Maryland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
State and Federal regulations require that Loch Raven Dam be rehabilitated and modified to withstand future significant storm events.
The upper Loch Raven Dam was originally constructed in 1912, to a height of 188 feet.
In the early 1970's, structural improvements to the face of the dam, and mechanical improvements to the intakes were completed.
www.baltimorecity.gov /government/dpw/lrdam.html   (747 words)

  
 The LOCH
The creature described in The Loch seems to be the real thing.
Ground-Breaking events have blown the lid off all Loch Ness Monster theories and the scientific premise in The Loch is proving true.
Highland authorities want this 1500 year legend to remain unsolved for another 1500 years and are blocking our attempts to unlock the truth.
www.theloch.com   (57 words)

  
 Off road driving Scotland, cruising watersports Loch Lomond, fishing, trekking horseriding walking Argyll Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From the majestic mountains and rugged woodland to the sparkling blue waters of Scotland’s bonniest loch.
Loch Lomond Shores Visitors Attraction is the principal gateway to Scotland’s first National Park and combines the spectacular environment with an outstanding mixture of leisure and retail experiences.
Boat trips on Loch Lomond remain the ideal way to explore the 33 islands dotted around the loch, each of which bear their own history and myths.
www.loch-lomond.co.uk /activities.html   (378 words)

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