04 Feb 2011 Gavin Hinks
OFTEN, it's all in the timing. Yesterday, Accountancy Age reported quite an outburst on the subject of banks forcing their clients to use Big Four only auditors through what are called "restrictive clauses" in their banking covenants.
It took place at the ICAS/Grant Thornton debate on the future of assurance. While many may consider restrictive clauses to be the Loch Ness Monster of financial arrangements (much talked about, but never proven) ICAS president Alan Thomson took the floor and blurted out that as chairman of a private equity house he had been forced to opt for a Big Four auditor by lenders. "That's not right," he proclaimed.
Many agree with him. Government minister Ed Davey has even said if such clauses are being used they should be a matter for the competition authorities. Positive, but not far from saying that if the monster does exist it should be a concern for zoologists, not crypto-zoologists.
But despite Alan Thomson's quite emphatic statement some people remain doubtful that restrictive clauses are actually real.
For example, last night the issue cropped up at the annual open meeting of the Financial Reporting Council.
During open questions one member of the audience asked the FRC what it was doing about restrictive clauses because they were, in his words, "profoundly in restraint of trade".
FRC chairman Baroness Hogg was much less certain. She said the regulator simply did not know the extent to which the clauses were being used and added more research was required.
Far be it for me to point out the obvious but that research now has a place to start - Alan Thomson. It would be no surprise if someone among the competition authorities felt the same way too. Or Ed Davey for that matter.
As far as I am aware the Loch Ness Monster has left little or not documentary evidence. This cannot be the case for restrictive clauses.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monster battle: Nessie tourism businesses get go ahead
Members of the Highland Counci have given permission for two tourism businesses to develop on the banks of Loch Ness.
21 March 2011 12:27 GMT
Two businesses are going head to head in a monster battle for Loch Ness tourists.
Highland Council's planning committee has been looking at multi-million pound plans for tourist centres on the banks of the most famous loch in the world.
The plans include a £2.5m application for the Jacobite Discovery Project submitted by Jacobite Cruises and a £2m application from Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition at Drumnadrochit to develop its existing waterside facilities, 850 yards away beside the Clansman Hotel.
Loch Ness cruise operator Jacobite Cruises announced plans in January for a new harbour, car park and visitor facilities on land each side of the loch-side A82 Inverness-Fort William road at Brackla.
Meanwhile, the family-run Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition is seeking approval for enhanced access, retail and catering facilities and parking.
Councillors viewed the locations from a boat before giving both projects full planning permission. Robert Bremner, managing director for Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition who have been given outline planning permission said: "Jacobite remain our tenants and I see no reason for that to change at the moment; we are still on speaking terms."
He added: "Our development will give people a chance to get down to the loch side. People are still attracted to the area, not just because of the mystery monster but because of the beauty of the area."
Robin Webster, partner at Cameron Webster Architects which has designed the Jacobite Discovery project, said: "There are many eco-friendly features within the development and the location of the discovery project lends itself excellently to these. Low-energy features are a priority."
Project director Rod Michie said: "We are delighted with the progress of Cameron Webster's designs and are proud our project will be as environmentally-friendly as possible.
"We are looking forward to having new facilities where visitors can make the most of beautiful Loch Ness. We want to create everlasting memories for customers to take home, whilst still being kind to the environment."
IN DETAIL: Nessie caught up in a monster tourism battle
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/237605-monster-battle-nessie-tourism-businesses-go-head-to-head/
21 March 2011 12:27 GMT
Two businesses are going head to head in a monster battle for Loch Ness tourists.
Highland Council's planning committee has been looking at multi-million pound plans for tourist centres on the banks of the most famous loch in the world.
The plans include a £2.5m application for the Jacobite Discovery Project submitted by Jacobite Cruises and a £2m application from Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition at Drumnadrochit to develop its existing waterside facilities, 850 yards away beside the Clansman Hotel.
Loch Ness cruise operator Jacobite Cruises announced plans in January for a new harbour, car park and visitor facilities on land each side of the loch-side A82 Inverness-Fort William road at Brackla.
Meanwhile, the family-run Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition is seeking approval for enhanced access, retail and catering facilities and parking.
Councillors viewed the locations from a boat before giving both projects full planning permission. Robert Bremner, managing director for Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition who have been given outline planning permission said: "Jacobite remain our tenants and I see no reason for that to change at the moment; we are still on speaking terms."
He added: "Our development will give people a chance to get down to the loch side. People are still attracted to the area, not just because of the mystery monster but because of the beauty of the area."
Robin Webster, partner at Cameron Webster Architects which has designed the Jacobite Discovery project, said: "There are many eco-friendly features within the development and the location of the discovery project lends itself excellently to these. Low-energy features are a priority."
Project director Rod Michie said: "We are delighted with the progress of Cameron Webster's designs and are proud our project will be as environmentally-friendly as possible.
"We are looking forward to having new facilities where visitors can make the most of beautiful Loch Ness. We want to create everlasting memories for customers to take home, whilst still being kind to the environment."
IN DETAIL: Nessie caught up in a monster tourism battle
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/237605-monster-battle-nessie-tourism-businesses-go-head-to-head/
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Banyoles, where Nessie's Spanish cousin lives
http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/201102014869/banyoles-lake/girona/spain/1/
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Something in the water: Gerard Byrne goes after the Loch Ness Monster in Milton Keynes
By Mark Sheerin | 13 January 2011
Exhibition: Gerard Byrne - Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, January 14 - April 3 2011
Unlike most investigations of Loch Ness, Gerard Byrne’s new show is not at all interested in the existence of a monster. His first major solo exhibition in a UK public space is about Nessie as a photographic phenomenon rather than a flesh and bone saurian.
Speaking via phone, the Dublin-based artist explains that what piqued his interest in the place was its relation to the history of photography. "As a site it amounted to a kind of cardinal point, you might say, in the way of people's expectations of photographs, people's beliefs in photography as such,” he says. “Do you know what I mean?”
Byrne has a knack of firing this short question back throughout the interview, usually after making one of his more abstract points. It is a worry because he asks it like he expects an answer.
“Now, I'm not a puritan or a fetishist or anything like that but I'm interested in the idea of photographs as a type of material as well, as a type of material that's generated through certain processes - both optical and chemical - and so it sort of matters that they're analogue prints [in the show] and it sort of matters that they've been generated through this, you know, physical temporal commitment to that site, if you know what I mean.”
By way of comment on the many famous pictures which claim to show what may or may not be in the local waters, Byrne has spent 10 years making a collection of his own photos of Loch Ness.
“There are people who've actually lived in caravans up there and camped out. I haven't done that. But I've made a lot of visits at least - I'd say at least a dozen visits, each for, like, a few days at a time, so I've put in some time up there,” he says.
And as you might expect from a visual artist, Byrne sets the scene very well. “Firstly the loch is very, very big,” he says. “It's much bigger than you might imagine. It's quite epic in scale and it's actually not the most beautiful part of the Highlands, the most, you know, windswept or romantic.”
To the ears of an ignorant southerner this is almost disappointing, until he adds: “It is a little bit dark you might say. I don't want to be melodramatic, but it is a little bit dour and dark in comparison with the surrounding landscape…it's sort of sombre, you might say.”
Byrne’s engagement with this figurative scenery was not without its ironies. “I go there and I make a lot of photographs and I look at the photographs after the fact and I realise that they're all landscape photographs,” says the conceptual artist.
“There's a type of topography at work in the photographs,” he says. "But in the end what they really chronicle is, I think, an idea of forms which could be mistaken for other forms.”
In other words there’s a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t quality to the work on display, monsters at which you have to look twice.
“That's one of the ideas that's very visible when you see the show - you know, this idea of the gestalt form, this idea of something that's almost in the mind's eye,” he adds.
It is, after all, such gestalt forms which give rise to lake-dwelling monsters. “That’s a kind of archeptypal myth that's found all around the world, and what distinguishes Loch Ness from the rest is precisely its mediation in the newspaper,” says Byrne.
He goes on to explain that interest in Loch Ness peaked in the early 1930s, at a time when the mass media was becoming all pervasive and more people were becoming aware of a sense of modernity.
“It's interesting that there's so much attraction to a myth that's primarily about the primeval, that's about the idea of something from prehistory, that could continue to live in the 20th century or the 21st century,” he says. “So there's a strange fantasy built into that that's about time or about escaping time or something that defies time.”
In which case new town Milton Keynes is the last place you’d expect to find a mythical dinosaur. But now that is where you will find it, as large as life - an indisputable phenomena if nothing else.
Open 12pm-8pm Tuesday-Friday (from 11am Saturday, 11am-5pm Sunday). Admission free.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography+%26+film/art315825
Exhibition: Gerard Byrne - Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, January 14 - April 3 2011
Unlike most investigations of Loch Ness, Gerard Byrne’s new show is not at all interested in the existence of a monster. His first major solo exhibition in a UK public space is about Nessie as a photographic phenomenon rather than a flesh and bone saurian.
Speaking via phone, the Dublin-based artist explains that what piqued his interest in the place was its relation to the history of photography. "As a site it amounted to a kind of cardinal point, you might say, in the way of people's expectations of photographs, people's beliefs in photography as such,” he says. “Do you know what I mean?”
Byrne has a knack of firing this short question back throughout the interview, usually after making one of his more abstract points. It is a worry because he asks it like he expects an answer.
“Now, I'm not a puritan or a fetishist or anything like that but I'm interested in the idea of photographs as a type of material as well, as a type of material that's generated through certain processes - both optical and chemical - and so it sort of matters that they're analogue prints [in the show] and it sort of matters that they've been generated through this, you know, physical temporal commitment to that site, if you know what I mean.”
By way of comment on the many famous pictures which claim to show what may or may not be in the local waters, Byrne has spent 10 years making a collection of his own photos of Loch Ness.
“There are people who've actually lived in caravans up there and camped out. I haven't done that. But I've made a lot of visits at least - I'd say at least a dozen visits, each for, like, a few days at a time, so I've put in some time up there,” he says.
And as you might expect from a visual artist, Byrne sets the scene very well. “Firstly the loch is very, very big,” he says. “It's much bigger than you might imagine. It's quite epic in scale and it's actually not the most beautiful part of the Highlands, the most, you know, windswept or romantic.”
To the ears of an ignorant southerner this is almost disappointing, until he adds: “It is a little bit dark you might say. I don't want to be melodramatic, but it is a little bit dour and dark in comparison with the surrounding landscape…it's sort of sombre, you might say.”
Byrne’s engagement with this figurative scenery was not without its ironies. “I go there and I make a lot of photographs and I look at the photographs after the fact and I realise that they're all landscape photographs,” says the conceptual artist.
“There's a type of topography at work in the photographs,” he says. "But in the end what they really chronicle is, I think, an idea of forms which could be mistaken for other forms.”
In other words there’s a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t quality to the work on display, monsters at which you have to look twice.
“That's one of the ideas that's very visible when you see the show - you know, this idea of the gestalt form, this idea of something that's almost in the mind's eye,” he adds.
It is, after all, such gestalt forms which give rise to lake-dwelling monsters. “That’s a kind of archeptypal myth that's found all around the world, and what distinguishes Loch Ness from the rest is precisely its mediation in the newspaper,” says Byrne.
He goes on to explain that interest in Loch Ness peaked in the early 1930s, at a time when the mass media was becoming all pervasive and more people were becoming aware of a sense of modernity.
“It's interesting that there's so much attraction to a myth that's primarily about the primeval, that's about the idea of something from prehistory, that could continue to live in the 20th century or the 21st century,” he says. “So there's a strange fantasy built into that that's about time or about escaping time or something that defies time.”
In which case new town Milton Keynes is the last place you’d expect to find a mythical dinosaur. But now that is where you will find it, as large as life - an indisputable phenomena if nothing else.
Open 12pm-8pm Tuesday-Friday (from 11am Saturday, 11am-5pm Sunday). Admission free.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography+%26+film/art315825
Something in the water: Gerard Byrne goes after the Loch Ness Monster in Milton Keynes
By Mark Sheerin | 13 January 2011
Exhibition: Gerard Byrne - Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, January 14 - April 3 2011
Unlike most investigations of Loch Ness, Gerard Byrne’s new show is not at all interested in the existence of a monster. His first major solo exhibition in a UK public space is about Nessie as a photographic phenomenon rather than a flesh and bone saurian.
Speaking via phone, the Dublin-based artist explains that what piqued his interest in the place was its relation to the history of photography. "As a site it amounted to a kind of cardinal point, you might say, in the way of people's expectations of photographs, people's beliefs in photography as such,” he says. “Do you know what I mean?”
Byrne has a knack of firing this short question back throughout the interview, usually after making one of his more abstract points. It is a worry because he asks it like he expects an answer.
“Now, I'm not a puritan or a fetishist or anything like that but I'm interested in the idea of photographs as a type of material as well, as a type of material that's generated through certain processes - both optical and chemical - and so it sort of matters that they're analogue prints [in the show] and it sort of matters that they've been generated through this, you know, physical temporal commitment to that site, if you know what I mean.”
By way of comment on the many famous pictures which claim to show what may or may not be in the local waters, Byrne has spent 10 years making a collection of his own photos of Loch Ness.
“There are people who've actually lived in caravans up there and camped out. I haven't done that. But I've made a lot of visits at least - I'd say at least a dozen visits, each for, like, a few days at a time, so I've put in some time up there,” he says.
And as you might expect from a visual artist, Byrne sets the scene very well. “Firstly the loch is very, very big,” he says. “It's much bigger than you might imagine. It's quite epic in scale and it's actually not the most beautiful part of the Highlands, the most, you know, windswept or romantic.”
To the ears of an ignorant southerner this is almost disappointing, until he adds: “It is a little bit dark you might say. I don't want to be melodramatic, but it is a little bit dour and dark in comparison with the surrounding landscape…it's sort of sombre, you might say.”
Byrne’s engagement with this figurative scenery was not without its ironies. “I go there and I make a lot of photographs and I look at the photographs after the fact and I realise that they're all landscape photographs,” says the conceptual artist.
“There's a type of topography at work in the photographs,” he says. "But in the end what they really chronicle is, I think, an idea of forms which could be mistaken for other forms.”
In other words there’s a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t quality to the work on display, monsters at which you have to look twice.
“That's one of the ideas that's very visible when you see the show - you know, this idea of the gestalt form, this idea of something that's almost in the mind's eye,” he adds.
It is, after all, such gestalt forms which give rise to lake-dwelling monsters. “That’s a kind of archeptypal myth that's found all around the world, and what distinguishes Loch Ness from the rest is precisely its mediation in the newspaper,” says Byrne.
He goes on to explain that interest in Loch Ness peaked in the early 1930s, at a time when the mass media was becoming all pervasive and more people were becoming aware of a sense of modernity.
“It's interesting that there's so much attraction to a myth that's primarily about the primeval, that's about the idea of something from prehistory, that could continue to live in the 20th century or the 21st century,” he says. “So there's a strange fantasy built into that that's about time or about escaping time or something that defies time.”
In which case new town Milton Keynes is the last place you’d expect to find a mythical dinosaur. But now that is where you will find it, as large as life - an indisputable phenomena if nothing else.
Open 12pm-8pm Tuesday-Friday (from 11am Saturday, 11am-5pm Sunday). Admission free.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography+%26+film/art315825
Exhibition: Gerard Byrne - Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, January 14 - April 3 2011
Unlike most investigations of Loch Ness, Gerard Byrne’s new show is not at all interested in the existence of a monster. His first major solo exhibition in a UK public space is about Nessie as a photographic phenomenon rather than a flesh and bone saurian.
Speaking via phone, the Dublin-based artist explains that what piqued his interest in the place was its relation to the history of photography. "As a site it amounted to a kind of cardinal point, you might say, in the way of people's expectations of photographs, people's beliefs in photography as such,” he says. “Do you know what I mean?”
Byrne has a knack of firing this short question back throughout the interview, usually after making one of his more abstract points. It is a worry because he asks it like he expects an answer.
“Now, I'm not a puritan or a fetishist or anything like that but I'm interested in the idea of photographs as a type of material as well, as a type of material that's generated through certain processes - both optical and chemical - and so it sort of matters that they're analogue prints [in the show] and it sort of matters that they've been generated through this, you know, physical temporal commitment to that site, if you know what I mean.”
By way of comment on the many famous pictures which claim to show what may or may not be in the local waters, Byrne has spent 10 years making a collection of his own photos of Loch Ness.
“There are people who've actually lived in caravans up there and camped out. I haven't done that. But I've made a lot of visits at least - I'd say at least a dozen visits, each for, like, a few days at a time, so I've put in some time up there,” he says.
And as you might expect from a visual artist, Byrne sets the scene very well. “Firstly the loch is very, very big,” he says. “It's much bigger than you might imagine. It's quite epic in scale and it's actually not the most beautiful part of the Highlands, the most, you know, windswept or romantic.”
To the ears of an ignorant southerner this is almost disappointing, until he adds: “It is a little bit dark you might say. I don't want to be melodramatic, but it is a little bit dour and dark in comparison with the surrounding landscape…it's sort of sombre, you might say.”
Byrne’s engagement with this figurative scenery was not without its ironies. “I go there and I make a lot of photographs and I look at the photographs after the fact and I realise that they're all landscape photographs,” says the conceptual artist.
“There's a type of topography at work in the photographs,” he says. "But in the end what they really chronicle is, I think, an idea of forms which could be mistaken for other forms.”
In other words there’s a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t quality to the work on display, monsters at which you have to look twice.
“That's one of the ideas that's very visible when you see the show - you know, this idea of the gestalt form, this idea of something that's almost in the mind's eye,” he adds.
It is, after all, such gestalt forms which give rise to lake-dwelling monsters. “That’s a kind of archeptypal myth that's found all around the world, and what distinguishes Loch Ness from the rest is precisely its mediation in the newspaper,” says Byrne.
He goes on to explain that interest in Loch Ness peaked in the early 1930s, at a time when the mass media was becoming all pervasive and more people were becoming aware of a sense of modernity.
“It's interesting that there's so much attraction to a myth that's primarily about the primeval, that's about the idea of something from prehistory, that could continue to live in the 20th century or the 21st century,” he says. “So there's a strange fantasy built into that that's about time or about escaping time or something that defies time.”
In which case new town Milton Keynes is the last place you’d expect to find a mythical dinosaur. But now that is where you will find it, as large as life - an indisputable phenomena if nothing else.
Open 12pm-8pm Tuesday-Friday (from 11am Saturday, 11am-5pm Sunday). Admission free.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography+%26+film/art315825
Friday, January 7, 2011
Forget Nessie, watch the dolphins
David Ross, Highland Correspondent
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29 Dec 2010
It is shaping up to be the biggest test of the Loch Ness Monster’s reputation as a top drawer tourist attraction since a surgeon’s photographs of the mythical beast were found to be faked.
The 500,000 tourists who visit Loch Ness every year from across the world have been urged to forget their search for Nessie and go to see real live bottlenose dolphins.
The Banffshire Coast Tourism Partnership began promoting itself as a key part of Scotland’s Dolphin Coast yesterday with the launch of a new website
Chairman Roger Goodyear said: “No-one, and certainly those who depend on the mythology for a living, cares to admit that Nessie doesn’t exist except in the imagination of visitors. Is Nessie real? As they say in all the best pantos ‘Oh no, she isn’t’ ... She’s not even behind you.
“We want people to know that instead of spending valuable holiday time looking for something that doesn’t exist they should come to Scotland’s Dolphin Coast instead and see something that most certainly does – our dolphins, porpoises and even minke whales.
“And, we can assure our visitors that the dolphins they encounter will be 100% genuine and not a floating log, an upturned rowing boat or a trick of the light.”
He said visitors to the Banffshire coast often had the chance to see the resident population of bottle nosed Moray Firth dolphins frolic close enough to the shores to view without binoculars.
The Moray Firth is home to the largest bottle nosed dolphins in the world, growing to nearly four metres long. It is estimated that around 130 dolphins live along the Moray Firth.
Graeme Ambrose, managing director of Destination Loch Ness Ltd, which represents 100 businesses around the loch, retorted: “I don’t think there really was any call for such an attack on Nessie. ”
David Alston, Highland Council’s head of budget and a Black Isle Councillor, said: “We certainly wouldn’t encourage visitors to forget about our legendary monster and take off to Banffshire.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/forget-nessie-watch-the-dolphins-1.1076919
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29 Dec 2010
It is shaping up to be the biggest test of the Loch Ness Monster’s reputation as a top drawer tourist attraction since a surgeon’s photographs of the mythical beast were found to be faked.
The 500,000 tourists who visit Loch Ness every year from across the world have been urged to forget their search for Nessie and go to see real live bottlenose dolphins.
The Banffshire Coast Tourism Partnership began promoting itself as a key part of Scotland’s Dolphin Coast yesterday with the launch of a new website
Chairman Roger Goodyear said: “No-one, and certainly those who depend on the mythology for a living, cares to admit that Nessie doesn’t exist except in the imagination of visitors. Is Nessie real? As they say in all the best pantos ‘Oh no, she isn’t’ ... She’s not even behind you.
“We want people to know that instead of spending valuable holiday time looking for something that doesn’t exist they should come to Scotland’s Dolphin Coast instead and see something that most certainly does – our dolphins, porpoises and even minke whales.
“And, we can assure our visitors that the dolphins they encounter will be 100% genuine and not a floating log, an upturned rowing boat or a trick of the light.”
He said visitors to the Banffshire coast often had the chance to see the resident population of bottle nosed Moray Firth dolphins frolic close enough to the shores to view without binoculars.
The Moray Firth is home to the largest bottle nosed dolphins in the world, growing to nearly four metres long. It is estimated that around 130 dolphins live along the Moray Firth.
Graeme Ambrose, managing director of Destination Loch Ness Ltd, which represents 100 businesses around the loch, retorted: “I don’t think there really was any call for such an attack on Nessie. ”
David Alston, Highland Council’s head of budget and a Black Isle Councillor, said: “We certainly wouldn’t encourage visitors to forget about our legendary monster and take off to Banffshire.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/forget-nessie-watch-the-dolphins-1.1076919
Forget Nessie, watch the dolphins
David Ross, Highland Correspondent
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29 Dec 2010
It is shaping up to be the biggest test of the Loch Ness Monster’s reputation as a top drawer tourist attraction since a surgeon’s photographs of the mythical beast were found to be faked.
The 500,000 tourists who visit Loch Ness every year from across the world have been urged to forget their search for Nessie and go to see real live bottlenose dolphins.
The Banffshire Coast Tourism Partnership began promoting itself as a key part of Scotland’s Dolphin Coast yesterday with the launch of a new website
Chairman Roger Goodyear said: “No-one, and certainly those who depend on the mythology for a living, cares to admit that Nessie doesn’t exist except in the imagination of visitors. Is Nessie real? As they say in all the best pantos ‘Oh no, she isn’t’ ... She’s not even behind you.
“We want people to know that instead of spending valuable holiday time looking for something that doesn’t exist they should come to Scotland’s Dolphin Coast instead and see something that most certainly does – our dolphins, porpoises and even minke whales.
“And, we can assure our visitors that the dolphins they encounter will be 100% genuine and not a floating log, an upturned rowing boat or a trick of the light.”
He said visitors to the Banffshire coast often had the chance to see the resident population of bottle nosed Moray Firth dolphins frolic close enough to the shores to view without binoculars.
The Moray Firth is home to the largest bottle nosed dolphins in the world, growing to nearly four metres long. It is estimated that around 130 dolphins live along the Moray Firth.
Graeme Ambrose, managing director of Destination Loch Ness Ltd, which represents 100 businesses around the loch, retorted: “I don’t think there really was any call for such an attack on Nessie. ”
David Alston, Highland Council’s head of budget and a Black Isle Councillor, said: “We certainly wouldn’t encourage visitors to forget about our legendary monster and take off to Banffshire.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/forget-nessie-watch-the-dolphins-1.1076919
Share
29 Dec 2010
It is shaping up to be the biggest test of the Loch Ness Monster’s reputation as a top drawer tourist attraction since a surgeon’s photographs of the mythical beast were found to be faked.
The 500,000 tourists who visit Loch Ness every year from across the world have been urged to forget their search for Nessie and go to see real live bottlenose dolphins.
The Banffshire Coast Tourism Partnership began promoting itself as a key part of Scotland’s Dolphin Coast yesterday with the launch of a new website
Chairman Roger Goodyear said: “No-one, and certainly those who depend on the mythology for a living, cares to admit that Nessie doesn’t exist except in the imagination of visitors. Is Nessie real? As they say in all the best pantos ‘Oh no, she isn’t’ ... She’s not even behind you.
“We want people to know that instead of spending valuable holiday time looking for something that doesn’t exist they should come to Scotland’s Dolphin Coast instead and see something that most certainly does – our dolphins, porpoises and even minke whales.
“And, we can assure our visitors that the dolphins they encounter will be 100% genuine and not a floating log, an upturned rowing boat or a trick of the light.”
He said visitors to the Banffshire coast often had the chance to see the resident population of bottle nosed Moray Firth dolphins frolic close enough to the shores to view without binoculars.
The Moray Firth is home to the largest bottle nosed dolphins in the world, growing to nearly four metres long. It is estimated that around 130 dolphins live along the Moray Firth.
Graeme Ambrose, managing director of Destination Loch Ness Ltd, which represents 100 businesses around the loch, retorted: “I don’t think there really was any call for such an attack on Nessie. ”
David Alston, Highland Council’s head of budget and a Black Isle Councillor, said: “We certainly wouldn’t encourage visitors to forget about our legendary monster and take off to Banffshire.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/forget-nessie-watch-the-dolphins-1.1076919
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
In search of Nessie in Scotland
By ALICE THERESA SUN - CUA
10/04/2010 | 01:35 PM
Who has not heard or read about the mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland? Our imaginations had been fired since childhood with stories about this long-necked dragon-like sea serpent supposedly living in the deep waters of this Scottish lake.
Many photos were published about her (the gender seemed to have stuck, somehow!) showing a shadowy silhouette of a small head, and a long neck with an undulating back emerging from the center of the lake. And yet nobody could really say what it was, and how it really looked like.
There have been many tales and testimonies since 1933 (or even as early as the 6th century, in written accounts), of sightings in the lake, and some even “seeing" it cross the street before slithering/lumbering towards the water. Based on its long neck and aquatic preference, scientists pegged it as a plesiosaurus, a pre-historic monster.
Named as one of the mysteries of the world, it figured in many scientific and pseudo-scientific studies, and theories abound as well. Some submersible sonar pictures and hydro-echoes showed a live animal, 20-30 feet long, moving and swishing in the lake. Eel, dragon, fish, magic horse, serpent --- the Loch Ness creature’s very identity had certainly reached mythological proportions. Books and articles about the sea creature filled shelves upon shelves but until now nobody really knew what it was— that is, of course, if it really existed.
Thus, it was with great excitement that my husband Alex and I signed up with the Jacobite Tour for Loch Ness at a shop in downtown Inverness. The shop sold cute little stuffed toys of the “monster" called “Nessie," an endearing name for the creature, and many a child came away from that shop clutching yellow, pink and green beribboned smiling Nessies in their hands.
The trip started early in the morning, and our bus driver/tour commentator was Simon, a local Scot who was born and who grew up beside the Loch Ness. Did he himself witness this creature arising from the sea? Well, yes, he answered. Sometimes at night when he had one drink too many, he said, he could certainly conjure up Nessie! It was about an 8 hour drive to the quay where we were to board a motorboat that will bring us to the center of the lake. Remember folks, Simon reminded us, be on the lookout for her, and don’t forget your cameras!
After about 30 minutes I noticed that the water had become dark, almost black, and Alex said it was because of its depth — the deepest part was around 800 meters. Would we see even part of the creature? Would that day be a special one perhaps, when Nessie would decide to show herself? Would it be like some disaster movie, where a boatful of unwary travelers would be suddenly but silently stalked by a giant sea serpent, its front flippers the size of their puny boat? Everyone was on their toes, scanning the water, the horizon. A little commotion in the water brought little screams of excitement, and laughter. The boat was swift and, in its wake, spumes of water sprayed all over us — a hat brought to cover the face from the sun became a shield in the intermittent showers from the lake.
On and on the boat roared until suddenly from the distance we saw the ruins of a castle nestling at the foot of a hill. This was the Urquhart Castle, a popular place for Nessie sightings as its great tower had a very good vantage point, facing the lake. When we drew near I realized that the castle was made of stones laid on top of each other, and that the remains of the fortress stretched out as far as the eyes could see.
Upon disembarking, we had the grassy knoll to walk around with many loose stones from the castle ramparts lying about, and a fresh wind coming in from the lake. Many intrepid souls clambered up the ruins of the tower fortified by steel bars. From a higher area I traced the curving line of the remains of the fort, the quiet making one pensive, thinking about the people who might have lived here during medieval times. There were many vantage points to look at the lake, and as I stood there by the decaying ramparts of the castle, a cool wind came up to whip against my cheek. I looked out into the loch, and noted its colors changed from time to time, dark greenish blue near the quay, and almost black at the center. From where I was, the water appeared calm, except when the wind blew, riffling the surface. Alas, nothing that resembled a sea creature arose to frighten us.
And where was Alex? I found him in one part of the castle grounds examining something that looked very strange indeed —a tall triangular wooden structure about five stories high, with long arms, round wheels with intricate carvings, and a row of huge stone balls at its foot. An upright detailed description at the side said this was a Trebuchet, considered as an important siege engine during the middle ages, “equivalent to the big guns today".
Using counterweights (think catapult), it could fling missiles (the large stone balls) to a distance at high speed to destroy enemy fortifications. This modern replica —based on the work of Villand de Honnecourt, a 13th century French architect —had a counterweight of “6 tonnes" and the throwing arm was 12.5 meters long; it could hurl a stone ball weighing about 11 kg a distance of 140 meters with good accuracy. Trebuchets went “out of style" after gunpowder was discovered (and traveled to the West). Nowadays, these medieval siege engines were constructed for historical re-enactments or, for their architectural challenge.
There was a Visitor’s Centre built into the hollow of an outcropping rock, and there we learned that the Urquhart Castle was built during the 13th century, and had changed hands so many times when Scottish clans fought and died for it. The castle now belonged to the National Trust of Scotland. We were invited to watch a documentary about the castle and it included clan wars, mainly by the McDonald’s clan to claim the castle. Drawn-out battles, bloodshed, scorching, looting, until finally the castle was left alone, and it fell into ruins. Sometimes people took away the loose stones, too, for their own use. We filed out of the audio-visual room into the bright afternoon sun, replete with Scottish lore, and realized that even if we didn’t really see Nessie herself, she had practically been with us throughout the day. - GMANews.TV
With photos at: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/202562/in-search-of-nessie-in-scotland
10/04/2010 | 01:35 PM
Who has not heard or read about the mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland? Our imaginations had been fired since childhood with stories about this long-necked dragon-like sea serpent supposedly living in the deep waters of this Scottish lake.
Many photos were published about her (the gender seemed to have stuck, somehow!) showing a shadowy silhouette of a small head, and a long neck with an undulating back emerging from the center of the lake. And yet nobody could really say what it was, and how it really looked like.
There have been many tales and testimonies since 1933 (or even as early as the 6th century, in written accounts), of sightings in the lake, and some even “seeing" it cross the street before slithering/lumbering towards the water. Based on its long neck and aquatic preference, scientists pegged it as a plesiosaurus, a pre-historic monster.
Named as one of the mysteries of the world, it figured in many scientific and pseudo-scientific studies, and theories abound as well. Some submersible sonar pictures and hydro-echoes showed a live animal, 20-30 feet long, moving and swishing in the lake. Eel, dragon, fish, magic horse, serpent --- the Loch Ness creature’s very identity had certainly reached mythological proportions. Books and articles about the sea creature filled shelves upon shelves but until now nobody really knew what it was— that is, of course, if it really existed.
Thus, it was with great excitement that my husband Alex and I signed up with the Jacobite Tour for Loch Ness at a shop in downtown Inverness. The shop sold cute little stuffed toys of the “monster" called “Nessie," an endearing name for the creature, and many a child came away from that shop clutching yellow, pink and green beribboned smiling Nessies in their hands.
The trip started early in the morning, and our bus driver/tour commentator was Simon, a local Scot who was born and who grew up beside the Loch Ness. Did he himself witness this creature arising from the sea? Well, yes, he answered. Sometimes at night when he had one drink too many, he said, he could certainly conjure up Nessie! It was about an 8 hour drive to the quay where we were to board a motorboat that will bring us to the center of the lake. Remember folks, Simon reminded us, be on the lookout for her, and don’t forget your cameras!
After about 30 minutes I noticed that the water had become dark, almost black, and Alex said it was because of its depth — the deepest part was around 800 meters. Would we see even part of the creature? Would that day be a special one perhaps, when Nessie would decide to show herself? Would it be like some disaster movie, where a boatful of unwary travelers would be suddenly but silently stalked by a giant sea serpent, its front flippers the size of their puny boat? Everyone was on their toes, scanning the water, the horizon. A little commotion in the water brought little screams of excitement, and laughter. The boat was swift and, in its wake, spumes of water sprayed all over us — a hat brought to cover the face from the sun became a shield in the intermittent showers from the lake.
On and on the boat roared until suddenly from the distance we saw the ruins of a castle nestling at the foot of a hill. This was the Urquhart Castle, a popular place for Nessie sightings as its great tower had a very good vantage point, facing the lake. When we drew near I realized that the castle was made of stones laid on top of each other, and that the remains of the fortress stretched out as far as the eyes could see.
Upon disembarking, we had the grassy knoll to walk around with many loose stones from the castle ramparts lying about, and a fresh wind coming in from the lake. Many intrepid souls clambered up the ruins of the tower fortified by steel bars. From a higher area I traced the curving line of the remains of the fort, the quiet making one pensive, thinking about the people who might have lived here during medieval times. There were many vantage points to look at the lake, and as I stood there by the decaying ramparts of the castle, a cool wind came up to whip against my cheek. I looked out into the loch, and noted its colors changed from time to time, dark greenish blue near the quay, and almost black at the center. From where I was, the water appeared calm, except when the wind blew, riffling the surface. Alas, nothing that resembled a sea creature arose to frighten us.
And where was Alex? I found him in one part of the castle grounds examining something that looked very strange indeed —a tall triangular wooden structure about five stories high, with long arms, round wheels with intricate carvings, and a row of huge stone balls at its foot. An upright detailed description at the side said this was a Trebuchet, considered as an important siege engine during the middle ages, “equivalent to the big guns today".
Using counterweights (think catapult), it could fling missiles (the large stone balls) to a distance at high speed to destroy enemy fortifications. This modern replica —based on the work of Villand de Honnecourt, a 13th century French architect —had a counterweight of “6 tonnes" and the throwing arm was 12.5 meters long; it could hurl a stone ball weighing about 11 kg a distance of 140 meters with good accuracy. Trebuchets went “out of style" after gunpowder was discovered (and traveled to the West). Nowadays, these medieval siege engines were constructed for historical re-enactments or, for their architectural challenge.
There was a Visitor’s Centre built into the hollow of an outcropping rock, and there we learned that the Urquhart Castle was built during the 13th century, and had changed hands so many times when Scottish clans fought and died for it. The castle now belonged to the National Trust of Scotland. We were invited to watch a documentary about the castle and it included clan wars, mainly by the McDonald’s clan to claim the castle. Drawn-out battles, bloodshed, scorching, looting, until finally the castle was left alone, and it fell into ruins. Sometimes people took away the loose stones, too, for their own use. We filed out of the audio-visual room into the bright afternoon sun, replete with Scottish lore, and realized that even if we didn’t really see Nessie herself, she had practically been with us throughout the day. - GMANews.TV
With photos at: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/202562/in-search-of-nessie-in-scotland
In search of Nessie in Scotland
By ALICE THERESA SUN - CUA
10/04/2010 | 01:35 PM
Who has not heard or read about the mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland? Our imaginations had been fired since childhood with stories about this long-necked dragon-like sea serpent supposedly living in the deep waters of this Scottish lake.
Many photos were published about her (the gender seemed to have stuck, somehow!) showing a shadowy silhouette of a small head, and a long neck with an undulating back emerging from the center of the lake. And yet nobody could really say what it was, and how it really looked like.
There have been many tales and testimonies since 1933 (or even as early as the 6th century, in written accounts), of sightings in the lake, and some even “seeing" it cross the street before slithering/lumbering towards the water. Based on its long neck and aquatic preference, scientists pegged it as a plesiosaurus, a pre-historic monster.
Named as one of the mysteries of the world, it figured in many scientific and pseudo-scientific studies, and theories abound as well. Some submersible sonar pictures and hydro-echoes showed a live animal, 20-30 feet long, moving and swishing in the lake. Eel, dragon, fish, magic horse, serpent --- the Loch Ness creature’s very identity had certainly reached mythological proportions. Books and articles about the sea creature filled shelves upon shelves but until now nobody really knew what it was— that is, of course, if it really existed.
Thus, it was with great excitement that my husband Alex and I signed up with the Jacobite Tour for Loch Ness at a shop in downtown Inverness. The shop sold cute little stuffed toys of the “monster" called “Nessie," an endearing name for the creature, and many a child came away from that shop clutching yellow, pink and green beribboned smiling Nessies in their hands.
The trip started early in the morning, and our bus driver/tour commentator was Simon, a local Scot who was born and who grew up beside the Loch Ness. Did he himself witness this creature arising from the sea? Well, yes, he answered. Sometimes at night when he had one drink too many, he said, he could certainly conjure up Nessie! It was about an 8 hour drive to the quay where we were to board a motorboat that will bring us to the center of the lake. Remember folks, Simon reminded us, be on the lookout for her, and don’t forget your cameras!
After about 30 minutes I noticed that the water had become dark, almost black, and Alex said it was because of its depth — the deepest part was around 800 meters. Would we see even part of the creature? Would that day be a special one perhaps, when Nessie would decide to show herself? Would it be like some disaster movie, where a boatful of unwary travelers would be suddenly but silently stalked by a giant sea serpent, its front flippers the size of their puny boat? Everyone was on their toes, scanning the water, the horizon. A little commotion in the water brought little screams of excitement, and laughter. The boat was swift and, in its wake, spumes of water sprayed all over us — a hat brought to cover the face from the sun became a shield in the intermittent showers from the lake.
On and on the boat roared until suddenly from the distance we saw the ruins of a castle nestling at the foot of a hill. This was the Urquhart Castle, a popular place for Nessie sightings as its great tower had a very good vantage point, facing the lake. When we drew near I realized that the castle was made of stones laid on top of each other, and that the remains of the fortress stretched out as far as the eyes could see.
Upon disembarking, we had the grassy knoll to walk around with many loose stones from the castle ramparts lying about, and a fresh wind coming in from the lake. Many intrepid souls clambered up the ruins of the tower fortified by steel bars. From a higher area I traced the curving line of the remains of the fort, the quiet making one pensive, thinking about the people who might have lived here during medieval times. There were many vantage points to look at the lake, and as I stood there by the decaying ramparts of the castle, a cool wind came up to whip against my cheek. I looked out into the loch, and noted its colors changed from time to time, dark greenish blue near the quay, and almost black at the center. From where I was, the water appeared calm, except when the wind blew, riffling the surface. Alas, nothing that resembled a sea creature arose to frighten us.
And where was Alex? I found him in one part of the castle grounds examining something that looked very strange indeed —a tall triangular wooden structure about five stories high, with long arms, round wheels with intricate carvings, and a row of huge stone balls at its foot. An upright detailed description at the side said this was a Trebuchet, considered as an important siege engine during the middle ages, “equivalent to the big guns today".
Using counterweights (think catapult), it could fling missiles (the large stone balls) to a distance at high speed to destroy enemy fortifications. This modern replica —based on the work of Villand de Honnecourt, a 13th century French architect —had a counterweight of “6 tonnes" and the throwing arm was 12.5 meters long; it could hurl a stone ball weighing about 11 kg a distance of 140 meters with good accuracy. Trebuchets went “out of style" after gunpowder was discovered (and traveled to the West). Nowadays, these medieval siege engines were constructed for historical re-enactments or, for their architectural challenge.
There was a Visitor’s Centre built into the hollow of an outcropping rock, and there we learned that the Urquhart Castle was built during the 13th century, and had changed hands so many times when Scottish clans fought and died for it. The castle now belonged to the National Trust of Scotland. We were invited to watch a documentary about the castle and it included clan wars, mainly by the McDonald’s clan to claim the castle. Drawn-out battles, bloodshed, scorching, looting, until finally the castle was left alone, and it fell into ruins. Sometimes people took away the loose stones, too, for their own use. We filed out of the audio-visual room into the bright afternoon sun, replete with Scottish lore, and realized that even if we didn’t really see Nessie herself, she had practically been with us throughout the day. - GMANews.TV
With photos at: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/202562/in-search-of-nessie-in-scotland
10/04/2010 | 01:35 PM
Who has not heard or read about the mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland? Our imaginations had been fired since childhood with stories about this long-necked dragon-like sea serpent supposedly living in the deep waters of this Scottish lake.
Many photos were published about her (the gender seemed to have stuck, somehow!) showing a shadowy silhouette of a small head, and a long neck with an undulating back emerging from the center of the lake. And yet nobody could really say what it was, and how it really looked like.
There have been many tales and testimonies since 1933 (or even as early as the 6th century, in written accounts), of sightings in the lake, and some even “seeing" it cross the street before slithering/lumbering towards the water. Based on its long neck and aquatic preference, scientists pegged it as a plesiosaurus, a pre-historic monster.
Named as one of the mysteries of the world, it figured in many scientific and pseudo-scientific studies, and theories abound as well. Some submersible sonar pictures and hydro-echoes showed a live animal, 20-30 feet long, moving and swishing in the lake. Eel, dragon, fish, magic horse, serpent --- the Loch Ness creature’s very identity had certainly reached mythological proportions. Books and articles about the sea creature filled shelves upon shelves but until now nobody really knew what it was— that is, of course, if it really existed.
Thus, it was with great excitement that my husband Alex and I signed up with the Jacobite Tour for Loch Ness at a shop in downtown Inverness. The shop sold cute little stuffed toys of the “monster" called “Nessie," an endearing name for the creature, and many a child came away from that shop clutching yellow, pink and green beribboned smiling Nessies in their hands.
The trip started early in the morning, and our bus driver/tour commentator was Simon, a local Scot who was born and who grew up beside the Loch Ness. Did he himself witness this creature arising from the sea? Well, yes, he answered. Sometimes at night when he had one drink too many, he said, he could certainly conjure up Nessie! It was about an 8 hour drive to the quay where we were to board a motorboat that will bring us to the center of the lake. Remember folks, Simon reminded us, be on the lookout for her, and don’t forget your cameras!
After about 30 minutes I noticed that the water had become dark, almost black, and Alex said it was because of its depth — the deepest part was around 800 meters. Would we see even part of the creature? Would that day be a special one perhaps, when Nessie would decide to show herself? Would it be like some disaster movie, where a boatful of unwary travelers would be suddenly but silently stalked by a giant sea serpent, its front flippers the size of their puny boat? Everyone was on their toes, scanning the water, the horizon. A little commotion in the water brought little screams of excitement, and laughter. The boat was swift and, in its wake, spumes of water sprayed all over us — a hat brought to cover the face from the sun became a shield in the intermittent showers from the lake.
On and on the boat roared until suddenly from the distance we saw the ruins of a castle nestling at the foot of a hill. This was the Urquhart Castle, a popular place for Nessie sightings as its great tower had a very good vantage point, facing the lake. When we drew near I realized that the castle was made of stones laid on top of each other, and that the remains of the fortress stretched out as far as the eyes could see.
Upon disembarking, we had the grassy knoll to walk around with many loose stones from the castle ramparts lying about, and a fresh wind coming in from the lake. Many intrepid souls clambered up the ruins of the tower fortified by steel bars. From a higher area I traced the curving line of the remains of the fort, the quiet making one pensive, thinking about the people who might have lived here during medieval times. There were many vantage points to look at the lake, and as I stood there by the decaying ramparts of the castle, a cool wind came up to whip against my cheek. I looked out into the loch, and noted its colors changed from time to time, dark greenish blue near the quay, and almost black at the center. From where I was, the water appeared calm, except when the wind blew, riffling the surface. Alas, nothing that resembled a sea creature arose to frighten us.
And where was Alex? I found him in one part of the castle grounds examining something that looked very strange indeed —a tall triangular wooden structure about five stories high, with long arms, round wheels with intricate carvings, and a row of huge stone balls at its foot. An upright detailed description at the side said this was a Trebuchet, considered as an important siege engine during the middle ages, “equivalent to the big guns today".
Using counterweights (think catapult), it could fling missiles (the large stone balls) to a distance at high speed to destroy enemy fortifications. This modern replica —based on the work of Villand de Honnecourt, a 13th century French architect —had a counterweight of “6 tonnes" and the throwing arm was 12.5 meters long; it could hurl a stone ball weighing about 11 kg a distance of 140 meters with good accuracy. Trebuchets went “out of style" after gunpowder was discovered (and traveled to the West). Nowadays, these medieval siege engines were constructed for historical re-enactments or, for their architectural challenge.
There was a Visitor’s Centre built into the hollow of an outcropping rock, and there we learned that the Urquhart Castle was built during the 13th century, and had changed hands so many times when Scottish clans fought and died for it. The castle now belonged to the National Trust of Scotland. We were invited to watch a documentary about the castle and it included clan wars, mainly by the McDonald’s clan to claim the castle. Drawn-out battles, bloodshed, scorching, looting, until finally the castle was left alone, and it fell into ruins. Sometimes people took away the loose stones, too, for their own use. We filed out of the audio-visual room into the bright afternoon sun, replete with Scottish lore, and realized that even if we didn’t really see Nessie herself, she had practically been with us throughout the day. - GMANews.TV
With photos at: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/202562/in-search-of-nessie-in-scotland
Thursday, September 23, 2010
England's own Loch Ness Monster?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Catherine Deshayes
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has proved to be a marketing boon for the Scottish Tourist Board and now the Lake District looks set to be the next hot destination for intrepid monster hunters...
Seven sightings of a long hump-backed animal swimming in Lake Windermere have been reported over the last four years.
The mysterious creature's fame has been slowly growing and she was recently given the nickname Bow-Nessie.
One local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claimed to have had a close encounter with something in the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish. And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.'
A tourist claimed to have captured the Loch Ness Monster on camera in 1934
Now 21st century technology, including sonar equipment, is being deployed to try and track her down.
The lake is 11 miles long and up to 220-feet deep in some places so the team searching for the creature will have to cover some ground.
So far, nothing has been detected, aside from a reported 14-foot long disturbance in the water, and the sonar read-outs have been blank.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.'
A 20-metre long object was spotted below the surface of the lake last year by a local film crew but sceptics claims the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.themovechannel.com/news/bac3f06e-80e1/
Catherine Deshayes
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has proved to be a marketing boon for the Scottish Tourist Board and now the Lake District looks set to be the next hot destination for intrepid monster hunters...
Seven sightings of a long hump-backed animal swimming in Lake Windermere have been reported over the last four years.
The mysterious creature's fame has been slowly growing and she was recently given the nickname Bow-Nessie.
One local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claimed to have had a close encounter with something in the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish. And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.'
A tourist claimed to have captured the Loch Ness Monster on camera in 1934
Now 21st century technology, including sonar equipment, is being deployed to try and track her down.
The lake is 11 miles long and up to 220-feet deep in some places so the team searching for the creature will have to cover some ground.
So far, nothing has been detected, aside from a reported 14-foot long disturbance in the water, and the sonar read-outs have been blank.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.'
A 20-metre long object was spotted below the surface of the lake last year by a local film crew but sceptics claims the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.themovechannel.com/news/bac3f06e-80e1/
England's own Loch Ness Monster?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Catherine Deshayes
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has proved to be a marketing boon for the Scottish Tourist Board and now the Lake District looks set to be the next hot destination for intrepid monster hunters...
Seven sightings of a long hump-backed animal swimming in Lake Windermere have been reported over the last four years.
The mysterious creature's fame has been slowly growing and she was recently given the nickname Bow-Nessie.
One local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claimed to have had a close encounter with something in the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish. And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.'
A tourist claimed to have captured the Loch Ness Monster on camera in 1934
Now 21st century technology, including sonar equipment, is being deployed to try and track her down.
The lake is 11 miles long and up to 220-feet deep in some places so the team searching for the creature will have to cover some ground.
So far, nothing has been detected, aside from a reported 14-foot long disturbance in the water, and the sonar read-outs have been blank.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.'
A 20-metre long object was spotted below the surface of the lake last year by a local film crew but sceptics claims the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.themovechannel.com/news/bac3f06e-80e1/
Catherine Deshayes
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has proved to be a marketing boon for the Scottish Tourist Board and now the Lake District looks set to be the next hot destination for intrepid monster hunters...
Seven sightings of a long hump-backed animal swimming in Lake Windermere have been reported over the last four years.
The mysterious creature's fame has been slowly growing and she was recently given the nickname Bow-Nessie.
One local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claimed to have had a close encounter with something in the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish. And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.'
A tourist claimed to have captured the Loch Ness Monster on camera in 1934
Now 21st century technology, including sonar equipment, is being deployed to try and track her down.
The lake is 11 miles long and up to 220-feet deep in some places so the team searching for the creature will have to cover some ground.
So far, nothing has been detected, aside from a reported 14-foot long disturbance in the water, and the sonar read-outs have been blank.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.'
A 20-metre long object was spotted below the surface of the lake last year by a local film crew but sceptics claims the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.themovechannel.com/news/bac3f06e-80e1/
Friday, September 17, 2010
Witch attempts to wake Loch Ness monster
A white witch and self-proclaimed ‘protector’ of Nessie is setting up a radio station to try and wake the monster.
17 September 2010 15:38 GMT
The high priest of the UK's white witches announced plans to set up a private pirate radio station aimed at just one listener: the Loch Ness Monster.
Paranormal researcher Kevin Carlyon, self-styled "protector" of Nessie, will blast out monster music songs on the banks of Loch Ness in a bid to summon her.
He will transmit ten hits which he believes will get her "in the mood" to make an appearance.
Mr Carlyon, from Sussex, plans to play the music in an illegal FM broadcast and will "strategically place" half a dozen radios around the banks of Loch Ness where he believes the spirit of the monster will be listening
The date is being kept secret because of the illegal nature of the broadcast. The songs haven't yet been chosen but will all have a monster theme tune.
Mr Carlyon has been involved in a series of strange events on the loch over the years.
He said: "I believe the monster is a spirit that lives in the loch. By transmitting the songs via the pirate radio transmission, the spirit, which I believe is telepathic, will pick up on it and hopefully stir into life.
He added: "I've got over 30 years experience in pirate radio, and I'm confident we'll be able to do this without many problems
"The hits will be broadcast on 106.8FM for 20 miles in each direction. We won't be asking people to come along to the broadcast, for obvious reasons, but we also hope to broadcast it over the Internet."
A ritual to actually summon the spirit of the Loch Ness Monster to the surface will be carried out after the broadcast.
Mr Carlyon said: "The radio broadcast will hopefully stir the monster into awakening but the ritual will be done on the beach later that evening, or the next morning."
It has been a quiet year so far for sightings of the elusive Nessie, but a local business operator said: "At least he may cause a ripple at the end of the tourist season."
Possible songs to summon Nessie:
1. Monster - The Automatic
2. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
3. Monster - Lady GaGa
4. Monster - Steppenwolf
5. Water Beastie - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
6. Loch Ness - Some Velvet Sidewalk
7. Ol'e Nessie - Mastodon
8. Monster - Skillet
9. Monster - Meg & Dia
10. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
11. Monster - REM
12. Daydream in Blue - I Monster
13. The Monster is Loose - Meat Loaf
14. The Boogy Monster - Gnarls Barkley
15. My beloved Monster – Eels
Do you have a song you think Nessie might like? Then let the news team know by leaving a comment on our facebook page.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/198063-witch-attempts-to-wake-loch-ness-monster/
17 September 2010 15:38 GMT
The high priest of the UK's white witches announced plans to set up a private pirate radio station aimed at just one listener: the Loch Ness Monster.
Paranormal researcher Kevin Carlyon, self-styled "protector" of Nessie, will blast out monster music songs on the banks of Loch Ness in a bid to summon her.
He will transmit ten hits which he believes will get her "in the mood" to make an appearance.
Mr Carlyon, from Sussex, plans to play the music in an illegal FM broadcast and will "strategically place" half a dozen radios around the banks of Loch Ness where he believes the spirit of the monster will be listening
The date is being kept secret because of the illegal nature of the broadcast. The songs haven't yet been chosen but will all have a monster theme tune.
Mr Carlyon has been involved in a series of strange events on the loch over the years.
He said: "I believe the monster is a spirit that lives in the loch. By transmitting the songs via the pirate radio transmission, the spirit, which I believe is telepathic, will pick up on it and hopefully stir into life.
He added: "I've got over 30 years experience in pirate radio, and I'm confident we'll be able to do this without many problems
"The hits will be broadcast on 106.8FM for 20 miles in each direction. We won't be asking people to come along to the broadcast, for obvious reasons, but we also hope to broadcast it over the Internet."
A ritual to actually summon the spirit of the Loch Ness Monster to the surface will be carried out after the broadcast.
Mr Carlyon said: "The radio broadcast will hopefully stir the monster into awakening but the ritual will be done on the beach later that evening, or the next morning."
It has been a quiet year so far for sightings of the elusive Nessie, but a local business operator said: "At least he may cause a ripple at the end of the tourist season."
Possible songs to summon Nessie:
1. Monster - The Automatic
2. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
3. Monster - Lady GaGa
4. Monster - Steppenwolf
5. Water Beastie - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
6. Loch Ness - Some Velvet Sidewalk
7. Ol'e Nessie - Mastodon
8. Monster - Skillet
9. Monster - Meg & Dia
10. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
11. Monster - REM
12. Daydream in Blue - I Monster
13. The Monster is Loose - Meat Loaf
14. The Boogy Monster - Gnarls Barkley
15. My beloved Monster – Eels
Do you have a song you think Nessie might like? Then let the news team know by leaving a comment on our facebook page.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/198063-witch-attempts-to-wake-loch-ness-monster/
Witch attempts to wake Loch Ness monster
A white witch and self-proclaimed ‘protector’ of Nessie is setting up a radio station to try and wake the monster.
17 September 2010 15:38 GMT
The high priest of the UK's white witches announced plans to set up a private pirate radio station aimed at just one listener: the Loch Ness Monster.
Paranormal researcher Kevin Carlyon, self-styled "protector" of Nessie, will blast out monster music songs on the banks of Loch Ness in a bid to summon her.
He will transmit ten hits which he believes will get her "in the mood" to make an appearance.
Mr Carlyon, from Sussex, plans to play the music in an illegal FM broadcast and will "strategically place" half a dozen radios around the banks of Loch Ness where he believes the spirit of the monster will be listening
The date is being kept secret because of the illegal nature of the broadcast. The songs haven't yet been chosen but will all have a monster theme tune.
Mr Carlyon has been involved in a series of strange events on the loch over the years.
He said: "I believe the monster is a spirit that lives in the loch. By transmitting the songs via the pirate radio transmission, the spirit, which I believe is telepathic, will pick up on it and hopefully stir into life.
He added: "I've got over 30 years experience in pirate radio, and I'm confident we'll be able to do this without many problems
"The hits will be broadcast on 106.8FM for 20 miles in each direction. We won't be asking people to come along to the broadcast, for obvious reasons, but we also hope to broadcast it over the Internet."
A ritual to actually summon the spirit of the Loch Ness Monster to the surface will be carried out after the broadcast.
Mr Carlyon said: "The radio broadcast will hopefully stir the monster into awakening but the ritual will be done on the beach later that evening, or the next morning."
It has been a quiet year so far for sightings of the elusive Nessie, but a local business operator said: "At least he may cause a ripple at the end of the tourist season."
Possible songs to summon Nessie:
1. Monster - The Automatic
2. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
3. Monster - Lady GaGa
4. Monster - Steppenwolf
5. Water Beastie - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
6. Loch Ness - Some Velvet Sidewalk
7. Ol'e Nessie - Mastodon
8. Monster - Skillet
9. Monster - Meg & Dia
10. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
11. Monster - REM
12. Daydream in Blue - I Monster
13. The Monster is Loose - Meat Loaf
14. The Boogy Monster - Gnarls Barkley
15. My beloved Monster – Eels
Do you have a song you think Nessie might like? Then let the news team know by leaving a comment on our facebook page.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/198063-witch-attempts-to-wake-loch-ness-monster/
17 September 2010 15:38 GMT
The high priest of the UK's white witches announced plans to set up a private pirate radio station aimed at just one listener: the Loch Ness Monster.
Paranormal researcher Kevin Carlyon, self-styled "protector" of Nessie, will blast out monster music songs on the banks of Loch Ness in a bid to summon her.
He will transmit ten hits which he believes will get her "in the mood" to make an appearance.
Mr Carlyon, from Sussex, plans to play the music in an illegal FM broadcast and will "strategically place" half a dozen radios around the banks of Loch Ness where he believes the spirit of the monster will be listening
The date is being kept secret because of the illegal nature of the broadcast. The songs haven't yet been chosen but will all have a monster theme tune.
Mr Carlyon has been involved in a series of strange events on the loch over the years.
He said: "I believe the monster is a spirit that lives in the loch. By transmitting the songs via the pirate radio transmission, the spirit, which I believe is telepathic, will pick up on it and hopefully stir into life.
He added: "I've got over 30 years experience in pirate radio, and I'm confident we'll be able to do this without many problems
"The hits will be broadcast on 106.8FM for 20 miles in each direction. We won't be asking people to come along to the broadcast, for obvious reasons, but we also hope to broadcast it over the Internet."
A ritual to actually summon the spirit of the Loch Ness Monster to the surface will be carried out after the broadcast.
Mr Carlyon said: "The radio broadcast will hopefully stir the monster into awakening but the ritual will be done on the beach later that evening, or the next morning."
It has been a quiet year so far for sightings of the elusive Nessie, but a local business operator said: "At least he may cause a ripple at the end of the tourist season."
Possible songs to summon Nessie:
1. Monster - The Automatic
2. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
3. Monster - Lady GaGa
4. Monster - Steppenwolf
5. Water Beastie - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
6. Loch Ness - Some Velvet Sidewalk
7. Ol'e Nessie - Mastodon
8. Monster - Skillet
9. Monster - Meg & Dia
10. Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
11. Monster - REM
12. Daydream in Blue - I Monster
13. The Monster is Loose - Meat Loaf
14. The Boogy Monster - Gnarls Barkley
15. My beloved Monster – Eels
Do you have a song you think Nessie might like? Then let the news team know by leaving a comment on our facebook page.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/198063-witch-attempts-to-wake-loch-ness-monster/
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Lake 'monster' rivals Loch Ness
September 13, 2010, 11:47 am
England may now have its own mysterious underwater creature lurking beneath its largest lake, and a rival to Scotland's Loch Ness monster.
Sky News reports that 'monster chasers' are the first to use sonar equipment to hunt down an unidentified creature mystifying locals of Lake Wyndermere in England.
There have been seven sightings in the last four years of what is believed to be a long humpbacked animal that has been nicknamed Bow-Nessie.
A local Lake Wyndermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett described his experience with the creature, "All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish."
"And then I was lifted up by a 3ft wave. I've no idea what it was."
The lake measures over 16km in length and presents a huge task for the 'monster chasers'.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard says that there have been more creature sightings at Wyndermere than Loch Ness in recent years, "We think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention."
According to reports a local film crew spotted a 20 metre long object below the surface of the lake but sceptics believe the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
See video at: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7932374/lake-monster-rivals-loch-ness
(Submitted by T. Peter Park)
See also: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Lake-Windermere-Search-For-Englands-Loch-Ness-Monster-Nicknamed-Bow-Nessie/Article/201009215725530
(Submitted by Simon Reames)
England may now have its own mysterious underwater creature lurking beneath its largest lake, and a rival to Scotland's Loch Ness monster.
Sky News reports that 'monster chasers' are the first to use sonar equipment to hunt down an unidentified creature mystifying locals of Lake Wyndermere in England.
There have been seven sightings in the last four years of what is believed to be a long humpbacked animal that has been nicknamed Bow-Nessie.
A local Lake Wyndermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett described his experience with the creature, "All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish."
"And then I was lifted up by a 3ft wave. I've no idea what it was."
The lake measures over 16km in length and presents a huge task for the 'monster chasers'.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard says that there have been more creature sightings at Wyndermere than Loch Ness in recent years, "We think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention."
According to reports a local film crew spotted a 20 metre long object below the surface of the lake but sceptics believe the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
See video at: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7932374/lake-monster-rivals-loch-ness
(Submitted by T. Peter Park)
See also: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Lake-Windermere-Search-For-Englands-Loch-Ness-Monster-Nicknamed-Bow-Nessie/Article/201009215725530
(Submitted by Simon Reames)
Lake 'monster' rivals Loch Ness
September 13, 2010, 11:47 am
England may now have its own mysterious underwater creature lurking beneath its largest lake, and a rival to Scotland's Loch Ness monster.
Sky News reports that 'monster chasers' are the first to use sonar equipment to hunt down an unidentified creature mystifying locals of Lake Wyndermere in England.
There have been seven sightings in the last four years of what is believed to be a long humpbacked animal that has been nicknamed Bow-Nessie.
A local Lake Wyndermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett described his experience with the creature, "All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish."
"And then I was lifted up by a 3ft wave. I've no idea what it was."
The lake measures over 16km in length and presents a huge task for the 'monster chasers'.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard says that there have been more creature sightings at Wyndermere than Loch Ness in recent years, "We think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention."
According to reports a local film crew spotted a 20 metre long object below the surface of the lake but sceptics believe the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
See video at: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7932374/lake-monster-rivals-loch-ness
(Submitted by T. Peter Park)
See also: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Lake-Windermere-Search-For-Englands-Loch-Ness-Monster-Nicknamed-Bow-Nessie/Article/201009215725530
(Submitted by Simon Reames)
England may now have its own mysterious underwater creature lurking beneath its largest lake, and a rival to Scotland's Loch Ness monster.
Sky News reports that 'monster chasers' are the first to use sonar equipment to hunt down an unidentified creature mystifying locals of Lake Wyndermere in England.
There have been seven sightings in the last four years of what is believed to be a long humpbacked animal that has been nicknamed Bow-Nessie.
A local Lake Wyndermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett described his experience with the creature, "All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish."
"And then I was lifted up by a 3ft wave. I've no idea what it was."
The lake measures over 16km in length and presents a huge task for the 'monster chasers'.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard says that there have been more creature sightings at Wyndermere than Loch Ness in recent years, "We think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention."
According to reports a local film crew spotted a 20 metre long object below the surface of the lake but sceptics believe the footage shows a wave from an unseen boat.
See video at: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7932374/lake-monster-rivals-loch-ness
(Submitted by T. Peter Park)
See also: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Lake-Windermere-Search-For-Englands-Loch-Ness-Monster-Nicknamed-Bow-Nessie/Article/201009215725530
(Submitted by Simon Reames)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
The search for England's Loch Ness Monster
Ted Thornhill - 12th September, 2010
A team has been sweeping Lake Windermere with sonar to try and find England’s very own Loch Ness Monster.
In the past four years there have been seven sightings of the mysterious creature, which eyewitnesses say is some sort of long humpbacked animal.
It’s been nicknamed Bow-Nessie – and now 21st century technology is being deployed to try and prove she exists.
It’ll be a hard task, though, as Lake Windermere is huge, measuring 11 miles in length and up to 220-feet in depth in some places.
However, one local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claims that he’s had a close encounter with something big and rather strange in the cold waters of the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish.
‘And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.’
The team searching for Bow-Nessie haven’t detected anything so far, aside from seeing an odd 20-foot disturbance in the water. The sonar read-outs remained stubbornly blank, though.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.’
Or, it could just be a monstrous waste of time. Watch this space.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/840664-the-search-for-englands-loch-ness-monster
A team has been sweeping Lake Windermere with sonar to try and find England’s very own Loch Ness Monster.
In the past four years there have been seven sightings of the mysterious creature, which eyewitnesses say is some sort of long humpbacked animal.
It’s been nicknamed Bow-Nessie – and now 21st century technology is being deployed to try and prove she exists.
It’ll be a hard task, though, as Lake Windermere is huge, measuring 11 miles in length and up to 220-feet in depth in some places.
However, one local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claims that he’s had a close encounter with something big and rather strange in the cold waters of the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish.
‘And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.’
The team searching for Bow-Nessie haven’t detected anything so far, aside from seeing an odd 20-foot disturbance in the water. The sonar read-outs remained stubbornly blank, though.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.’
Or, it could just be a monstrous waste of time. Watch this space.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/840664-the-search-for-englands-loch-ness-monster
The search for England's Loch Ness Monster
Ted Thornhill - 12th September, 2010
A team has been sweeping Lake Windermere with sonar to try and find England’s very own Loch Ness Monster.
In the past four years there have been seven sightings of the mysterious creature, which eyewitnesses say is some sort of long humpbacked animal.
It’s been nicknamed Bow-Nessie – and now 21st century technology is being deployed to try and prove she exists.
It’ll be a hard task, though, as Lake Windermere is huge, measuring 11 miles in length and up to 220-feet in depth in some places.
However, one local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claims that he’s had a close encounter with something big and rather strange in the cold waters of the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish.
‘And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.’
The team searching for Bow-Nessie haven’t detected anything so far, aside from seeing an odd 20-foot disturbance in the water. The sonar read-outs remained stubbornly blank, though.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.’
Or, it could just be a monstrous waste of time. Watch this space.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/840664-the-search-for-englands-loch-ness-monster
A team has been sweeping Lake Windermere with sonar to try and find England’s very own Loch Ness Monster.
In the past four years there have been seven sightings of the mysterious creature, which eyewitnesses say is some sort of long humpbacked animal.
It’s been nicknamed Bow-Nessie – and now 21st century technology is being deployed to try and prove she exists.
It’ll be a hard task, though, as Lake Windermere is huge, measuring 11 miles in length and up to 220-feet in depth in some places.
However, one local, Windermere hotel owner Thomas Noblett, claims that he’s had a close encounter with something big and rather strange in the cold waters of the lake.
He told Sky News: ‘All of a sudden I felt something brush past my legs like a giant fish.
‘And then I was lifted up by a three-foot wave. I've no idea what it was.’
The team searching for Bow-Nessie haven’t detected anything so far, aside from seeing an odd 20-foot disturbance in the water. The sonar read-outs remained stubbornly blank, though.
Hunt organiser, Dean Maynard, added: ‘We've had more creature sightings here than at Loch Ness in recent years so we think it's time that Bow-Nessie received more attention.’
Or, it could just be a monstrous waste of time. Watch this space.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/840664-the-search-for-englands-loch-ness-monster
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Bownessie hunters begin their search today
10:30am Saturday 11th September 2010
By Bethany Abbit
Reporter
A PSYCHIC and a hotelier will be hoping for a close encounter when they venture to the depths of Windermere in search of ‘Bownessie’ today (Saturday).
The monster hunters have taken a £300,000 yacht to the deepest depths of the lake and will use sonar equipment to search for the beast.
And as psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard and Langdale Chase Hotel owner Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett begin their adventure, a sighting from the mid 1970's has been disclosed for the first time.
Andrew Bury, has revealed that he spotted a 90 foot monster ripple in the water whilst fishing on Windermere more than 30 years ago.
“One summer Sunday whilst fishing I was rowing back from Lakeside when I saw a wave along the lake very near to our boat,” he said.
“It was a clear, calm day and it looked as though a boat was dragging along the water, but there was nothing else around that could have caused it.
“There were seagulls diving all over it and it was moving quite fast. We thought it was really strange. I’ve spent a lot of time sailing and I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Mr Bury, 52, who lives in Clitheroe, said the ripple disappeared after five minutes and he never saw it again.
“It could have been a small-scale submarine or a very large fish I suppose. It was very eerie,” he said.
This latest revelation is the earliest recorded encounter of the fabled monster, which is believed to lurk at the Lakeside end of the ancient lake.
The first sighting came in 2006 when tourist Steve Burnip witnessed a serpent like creature, around 15-feet in length, at the north end of the water.
In 2007, Windermere photographer Linden Adams described a ‘spine-tingling’ experience when he snapped the creature whilst walking with his wife near Gummers Howe.
"It just came out of the blue. The water was incredibly peaceful and then this huge thing appeared, diving and thrashing around,” he said.
Karen Walker was the next to report a sighting whilst boating.
“From out of nowhere this dark shadow just under the surface glided past the boat, it never broke the surface of the water, me and my sister-in-law both saw it."
Then last year, Mr Noblett himself was swamped by a three-foot wave whilst swimming on the lake.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/8386548.Bownessie_hunters_begin_their_search_today/
(Submitted by Mark North)
By Bethany Abbit
Reporter
A PSYCHIC and a hotelier will be hoping for a close encounter when they venture to the depths of Windermere in search of ‘Bownessie’ today (Saturday).
The monster hunters have taken a £300,000 yacht to the deepest depths of the lake and will use sonar equipment to search for the beast.
And as psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard and Langdale Chase Hotel owner Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett begin their adventure, a sighting from the mid 1970's has been disclosed for the first time.
Andrew Bury, has revealed that he spotted a 90 foot monster ripple in the water whilst fishing on Windermere more than 30 years ago.
“One summer Sunday whilst fishing I was rowing back from Lakeside when I saw a wave along the lake very near to our boat,” he said.
“It was a clear, calm day and it looked as though a boat was dragging along the water, but there was nothing else around that could have caused it.
“There were seagulls diving all over it and it was moving quite fast. We thought it was really strange. I’ve spent a lot of time sailing and I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Mr Bury, 52, who lives in Clitheroe, said the ripple disappeared after five minutes and he never saw it again.
“It could have been a small-scale submarine or a very large fish I suppose. It was very eerie,” he said.
This latest revelation is the earliest recorded encounter of the fabled monster, which is believed to lurk at the Lakeside end of the ancient lake.
The first sighting came in 2006 when tourist Steve Burnip witnessed a serpent like creature, around 15-feet in length, at the north end of the water.
In 2007, Windermere photographer Linden Adams described a ‘spine-tingling’ experience when he snapped the creature whilst walking with his wife near Gummers Howe.
"It just came out of the blue. The water was incredibly peaceful and then this huge thing appeared, diving and thrashing around,” he said.
Karen Walker was the next to report a sighting whilst boating.
“From out of nowhere this dark shadow just under the surface glided past the boat, it never broke the surface of the water, me and my sister-in-law both saw it."
Then last year, Mr Noblett himself was swamped by a three-foot wave whilst swimming on the lake.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/8386548.Bownessie_hunters_begin_their_search_today/
(Submitted by Mark North)
Bownessie hunters begin their search today
10:30am Saturday 11th September 2010
By Bethany Abbit
Reporter
A PSYCHIC and a hotelier will be hoping for a close encounter when they venture to the depths of Windermere in search of ‘Bownessie’ today (Saturday).
The monster hunters have taken a £300,000 yacht to the deepest depths of the lake and will use sonar equipment to search for the beast.
And as psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard and Langdale Chase Hotel owner Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett begin their adventure, a sighting from the mid 1970's has been disclosed for the first time.
Andrew Bury, has revealed that he spotted a 90 foot monster ripple in the water whilst fishing on Windermere more than 30 years ago.
“One summer Sunday whilst fishing I was rowing back from Lakeside when I saw a wave along the lake very near to our boat,” he said.
“It was a clear, calm day and it looked as though a boat was dragging along the water, but there was nothing else around that could have caused it.
“There were seagulls diving all over it and it was moving quite fast. We thought it was really strange. I’ve spent a lot of time sailing and I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Mr Bury, 52, who lives in Clitheroe, said the ripple disappeared after five minutes and he never saw it again.
“It could have been a small-scale submarine or a very large fish I suppose. It was very eerie,” he said.
This latest revelation is the earliest recorded encounter of the fabled monster, which is believed to lurk at the Lakeside end of the ancient lake.
The first sighting came in 2006 when tourist Steve Burnip witnessed a serpent like creature, around 15-feet in length, at the north end of the water.
In 2007, Windermere photographer Linden Adams described a ‘spine-tingling’ experience when he snapped the creature whilst walking with his wife near Gummers Howe.
"It just came out of the blue. The water was incredibly peaceful and then this huge thing appeared, diving and thrashing around,” he said.
Karen Walker was the next to report a sighting whilst boating.
“From out of nowhere this dark shadow just under the surface glided past the boat, it never broke the surface of the water, me and my sister-in-law both saw it."
Then last year, Mr Noblett himself was swamped by a three-foot wave whilst swimming on the lake.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/8386548.Bownessie_hunters_begin_their_search_today/
(Submitted by Mark North)
By Bethany Abbit
Reporter
A PSYCHIC and a hotelier will be hoping for a close encounter when they venture to the depths of Windermere in search of ‘Bownessie’ today (Saturday).
The monster hunters have taken a £300,000 yacht to the deepest depths of the lake and will use sonar equipment to search for the beast.
And as psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard and Langdale Chase Hotel owner Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett begin their adventure, a sighting from the mid 1970's has been disclosed for the first time.
Andrew Bury, has revealed that he spotted a 90 foot monster ripple in the water whilst fishing on Windermere more than 30 years ago.
“One summer Sunday whilst fishing I was rowing back from Lakeside when I saw a wave along the lake very near to our boat,” he said.
“It was a clear, calm day and it looked as though a boat was dragging along the water, but there was nothing else around that could have caused it.
“There were seagulls diving all over it and it was moving quite fast. We thought it was really strange. I’ve spent a lot of time sailing and I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
Mr Bury, 52, who lives in Clitheroe, said the ripple disappeared after five minutes and he never saw it again.
“It could have been a small-scale submarine or a very large fish I suppose. It was very eerie,” he said.
This latest revelation is the earliest recorded encounter of the fabled monster, which is believed to lurk at the Lakeside end of the ancient lake.
The first sighting came in 2006 when tourist Steve Burnip witnessed a serpent like creature, around 15-feet in length, at the north end of the water.
In 2007, Windermere photographer Linden Adams described a ‘spine-tingling’ experience when he snapped the creature whilst walking with his wife near Gummers Howe.
"It just came out of the blue. The water was incredibly peaceful and then this huge thing appeared, diving and thrashing around,” he said.
Karen Walker was the next to report a sighting whilst boating.
“From out of nowhere this dark shadow just under the surface glided past the boat, it never broke the surface of the water, me and my sister-in-law both saw it."
Then last year, Mr Noblett himself was swamped by a three-foot wave whilst swimming on the lake.
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/8386548.Bownessie_hunters_begin_their_search_today/
(Submitted by Mark North)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Hunt for the beast of Windermere
Last updated at 13:43, Thursday, 09 September 2010
EVERYONE has heard of the Loch Ness Monster.
But for the past four years, a rumour of another ‘beast’ has circulated around the Lake District.
A team of investigators have now taken it upon themselves to find the now legendary ‘Bownessie’ in the waters of Windermere.
The crack team will descend onto the shores of the famous lake on Saturday.
Psychic Dean Maynard will lead the team after a recent sighting tip-off.
The excursion is the second the team has carried out in as many years, first hunting for the ‘monster’ in the summer of last year.
Mr Maynard, who spends most of his time at his Ullswater base, said: “There are a lot of sceptical people who may not believe in what we are doing.
“But whatever happens, we are hoping it will provide a major tourism boost to the area, which in recent months is much needed.
“Last year we went with Lakes TV and managed to get some shots of what looks like the monster.
“This year we hope to gather more evidence.”
The tip-off came last week from Lancashire man Andrew Bury, who claims he first saw Bownessie on the lake 30 years ago. Mr Bury had kept quiet but spoke up after reading a magazine article about the physic.
The ‘monster’ is said to have a head shaped like that of a Labrador dog.
Several witnesses have come forward in the last four years, describing the ‘beast’ as moving in a straight line, without disturbing the water, before disappearing out of sight.
University lecturer Steve Burnip said he and his wife Eileen spotted the ‘monster’ in 2006.
Mr Burnip, 51, said: “I saw a straight line of broken water with three humps.
“It was about 20ft long and it went in a straight line up the lake.
“I nudged my wife and watched open-mouthed as it gradually faded from sight. The water was not choppy, so I know it wasn’t the wind, and I know what the wake from motor boats looks like and it wasn’t that, either.”
First published at 13:08, Thursday, 09 September 2010
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/hunt-to-find-if-anythinglies-beneath-windermere-1.756207
(Submitted by Mark North)
EVERYONE has heard of the Loch Ness Monster.
But for the past four years, a rumour of another ‘beast’ has circulated around the Lake District.
A team of investigators have now taken it upon themselves to find the now legendary ‘Bownessie’ in the waters of Windermere.
The crack team will descend onto the shores of the famous lake on Saturday.
Psychic Dean Maynard will lead the team after a recent sighting tip-off.
The excursion is the second the team has carried out in as many years, first hunting for the ‘monster’ in the summer of last year.
Mr Maynard, who spends most of his time at his Ullswater base, said: “There are a lot of sceptical people who may not believe in what we are doing.
“But whatever happens, we are hoping it will provide a major tourism boost to the area, which in recent months is much needed.
“Last year we went with Lakes TV and managed to get some shots of what looks like the monster.
“This year we hope to gather more evidence.”
The tip-off came last week from Lancashire man Andrew Bury, who claims he first saw Bownessie on the lake 30 years ago. Mr Bury had kept quiet but spoke up after reading a magazine article about the physic.
The ‘monster’ is said to have a head shaped like that of a Labrador dog.
Several witnesses have come forward in the last four years, describing the ‘beast’ as moving in a straight line, without disturbing the water, before disappearing out of sight.
University lecturer Steve Burnip said he and his wife Eileen spotted the ‘monster’ in 2006.
Mr Burnip, 51, said: “I saw a straight line of broken water with three humps.
“It was about 20ft long and it went in a straight line up the lake.
“I nudged my wife and watched open-mouthed as it gradually faded from sight. The water was not choppy, so I know it wasn’t the wind, and I know what the wake from motor boats looks like and it wasn’t that, either.”
First published at 13:08, Thursday, 09 September 2010
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/hunt-to-find-if-anythinglies-beneath-windermere-1.756207
(Submitted by Mark North)
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