Caledonian Canal, Scottland, 1st week of July 2018
After a warm welcome to Scotland, we enter the Caledonian Canal, which connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness, with the Scottish west coast at Corpach, near Fort William.
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Before continuing the travel through the canal, we spend a couple of nights in Inverness to film the big groups of bottlenose dolphins in Moray Firth 🎥 🐬 💦
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The Caledonian Canal is 97 km long, from northeast to southwest of Scotland, and contains 29 locks, four aqueducts and 10 bridges.
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We have been to the canal 6 times now, but have never experienced such a warm travel through as this time. Even the bridges got closed during the afternoons due to the heat, resulting in us getting stuck in both Inverness and Loch Ness for a night each...
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The canal travels through the beautiful, flourishing Scottish landscape of which I never get bored of!
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One third of the entire length is man-made, the rest being formed by four natural lochs, which are:
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... Loch Dochfour...
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... the famous Loch Ness... 🐉
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... Loch Oich...
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... and Loch Lochy...
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When finally arrive Corpach/Fort William, at the west coast, it is so time to take the very last loch to leave the colourful Scottish mainland and the canal life.
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Even though I truly enjoy this beautiful canal and its picturesque natural lochs, it feels oh so good to get back to saltwater again! 😃
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Back to the salty Ocean where aquatic creatures are more likely to be seen, except for Nessie of course 🐉 😉So I keep having a good lookout in hope for some sweet encounters soon... 🙃👌
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