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| The Lord of the Glen - The largest cruise boat that can pass through the locks with inches to spare. |
We remained firmly fixed but the anchor grumbled all night and kept me up checking our position.
Sunday dawned blustery and wet for our journey to Fort Augustus with several small squalls transiting the loch. On arrival the swing bridge was open and we were able to go straight into the first of the flight of 5 locks which took just under 90 minutes to complete. Today these lock are hydraulically operated. Before this, according to a lock keeper, the manual operation would take all day. It is quite a tourist attraction and I'm sure we appeared in many photographs. It was obvious that a lot of holiday makers had just picked up their boats and were starting their canal holidays. Very few were English speaking, most seemed to be from the Netherlands or Germany.
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| A surfeit of water cascades over the locks. |
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| Looking from lock 3 towards Loch Ness |
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| Fresh with their boats the holiday makers enter their first lock. |
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