Las Ramblas head out to Loch Lomond for a Sunday Stroll,
surprisingly Neil arrived first at the meeting point unlike Martha Tilton who came up with the feeble excuse that she was helping Bruce in Cowdenbeath with a couple of big sums
Gillian, Alison, Marion, Neil, Alfie, June, Avril, Gary, Layla, Ryan & Wilf set out from Rowardennan for a saunter on the shores of
Scotland's loch that doesn't rely on a Monster to pull in the tourist.
Loch Lomond is a freshwater loch lying on the Highland
Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central
Scotland and the Highlands. It is 39 kilometres (24 mi) long and between 1.21
kilometres (0.75 mi) and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. It has an average depth of
about 37 metres (121 ft), and a maximum depth of about 190 metres (620 ft). Its
surface area is 71 km2 (27 sq mi), and it has a volume of 2.6 km3 (0.62 cu mi).
Of all lochs and lakes in Great Britain, it is the largest by surface area, and
the second largest (after Loch Ness) by water volume. Within the United Kingdom,
it is surpassed only by Lough Neagh and Lower Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.
Traditionally a boundary between Stirlingshire and
Dunbaronshire, Loch Lomond is currently split between the council areas of
Stirling, Argyll and Bute, and West Dunbartonshire.
Loch Lomond is now part of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
National Park. Ben Lomond is on the eastern shore: 3,195 ft in height and the
most southerly of the Scottish Munro peaks. A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers
voted Loch Lomond as the 6th greatest natural wonder in Britain.
The loch contains thirty or more other islands. depending on
the water level. Several of them are large by the standards of British bodies
of freshwater. Inchmurrin, for example, is the largest island in a body of
freshwater in the British Isles.
Several of the islands
appear to be crannogs, artificial islands built in prehistoric periods
One of the loch's islands, Inchconnachan, is home to a
colony of wallabies.
Alison & Layla
Loch Lomond
Marion & Avril express a preference for the Low Road
Fly Agaric
Neil gets some practice in for the impending championships
Ramblers Rest
Alison realises she cant get a signal on her Phone
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