Dores

 A bright weekend but very chilly with reports in the local newspaper of a 2 inch covering of snow on the Cairngorm Mountains, enough for children to enjoy but not enough for skiing just yet. Took a trip into Inverness on Sunday and stopped at the Dores Inn on the way back for a walk along the beach and to enjoy the view...this is one of our favourites. The car park was quite full of people having Sunday lunch and the resident ducks were, not surprisingly, full up too. The Jacobite Queen came into view sailing along close to the opposite shore after taking passengers on a trip to Urquhart Castle and back to Inverness.

Kayaks.

The sport of kayakking is proving to be very popular and we see alot of groups of kayaks and canoes out on the water of Loch Ness. Most are sensible and respect the water but we do see some rather reckless people out on the water and the RNLI is often called out to help them in difficulties.Guests in our cottage this week have brought their kayak on holiday and we allow them to park it in front of our house for easy access to Loch Ness.