Loch Leven

We ate tonight at the Bothy Bar at the end of Loch Leven and this was the view. Amazing. Definitely the best bit of the day.

We’d walked a little of the Great Glen Way up as far as Neptune’s Staircase, an incredible feat of engineering that is a series of 8 canal locks, that took 21 years to build. It was engineered by Thomas Telford in the 19th Century, although the idea of a single lock goes to Leonardo da Vinci. The locks enable a 19.5m height change in 450m and it takes a boat 90mins to travel through them all .

Quite by chance we saw the steam train passing and I appreciated the orchids alongside the Caledonian canal too.