4 Kidneys and a Wonky Leg

Philias Fogg made a wager of £20000 to travel round the world in eighty days and of course he won his bet surmounting many challenges along the way. When we started this trip there was no such wager in place, but there was a target for the amount of money we might raise for our chosen charity, the Wessex Kidney Patients Association. We hope that by the end of the Journey in Sept that target of £1000.00 will be reached or even better surpassed. Please share this blog far and wide.

Nuff said. Today we were up early ready for todays trip into Loch Ness. We blagged our way into the first Loch up of the day which was not until nine thirty, with us were four Norwegian boats.

It was first time through the lock flight for all of them, so having done this once before we were the “experienced ones”. We were put in first, not the best position, as the front boat gets all the turbulence from the water gushing in and sure enough it wasn’t good, the boat was pushed around badly and the crew struggled to keep it under control.

There were a couple of large commercial tourist boats in the canal sections which were a bit of a squeeze to get past. Two more swing bridges and a lock later and we entered Loch Ness. The wind either goes up or down Loch Ness and today it was up, straight on the nose as usual, between 25-30 knots. Still, there was only 6 miles to go so we plodded on while the Norwegian boats set sail.

We anchored in 3.5 m of water close to a small wooden jetty, and over the course of the afternoon and evening the wind died to nothing.

It was a lovely quite warm evening as we watched the sun go down before bed. On to Fort Augustus tomorrow!

The Wessex Kidney Patients Association is a charity that helps patients and their families deal with the upheaval caused by Kidney disease. If you enjoy reading our blog please consider giving to this cause . Many thanks Louise & Martin