Ok, today's been a lot to take in really. Let's see if I can sum this up somewhat coherently after a long day and a couple of bottles of wine!
We started today in a fairly leisurely fashion because we'd recently arranged a short cruise around the southern end of Loch Ness. Fort Augustus sits right at the southern end of the loch and therefore was actually a great spot to explore from.
We had a really nice trip with some excellent scientific explanations of the work going on to understand what is in the very murky and very very deep waters.
GGW day 4 - Fort Augustus to Invermoriston (high route)

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