Yesterday was our first day of walking. After a transfer from Inverness along the north bank of Loch Ness (Nessie world and assorted other attractions!) we arrived at the village of Invergarry, got out the walking notes and set off. Invergarry is broadly half way down the north bank of Loch Oich, and our walk took us through a forestry plantation and around the end of the loch across the Laggan locks of the Caledonian Canal and up the south bank of the loch to Oich Bridge where we then walked the tow path of the next section of the Canal to Fort Augustus on Loch Ness.

Except for the first part of the walk through the plantation (a gentle up and down with a view down to the loch) the walking was easy and flat; it was a sunny, almost hot, day and there were only a few other walkers and bikers, chirping birds and folk in hire boats navigating the locks on the canal. We’ve been surprised by the number of boats we’ve seen in our travels so far, and cruising the lochs up here seems very popular.