Girl on holiday in Scotland captures new Loch Ness Monster photograph

In what has been described as the best photograph of the Loch Ness Monster taken for a number of years, a 12 year hold girl on holiday has captured an image of "Nessie". The photograph was taken at around 7pm on 17th August. Charlotte Robinson, who was staying with her family in Invermoriston, when Nessie emerged some 50 feet away for about a minute. It then re-surfaced about ten feet further away and submerged again in less than sixty seconds, by which time the photograph had been taken.

Loch Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Nis) is a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd) which is renowned for its great beauty. It is, of course, also famous for being home to the mysterious large aquatic animal known as the Loch Ness Monster or affectionately known by the nickname Nessie (Scottish Gaelic:Niseag). Over many years people have claimed to have seen Nessie in the Loch and their descriptions have led to speculation that, if it exists, it could be related to the plesiosaurs. Plesiosaurs first appeared about 205 million years ago but have been extinct for some 66 million years. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates back to the time of Saint Columba (7 December 521 – 9 June 597). Columba came across a group of people burying a man by the River Ness. He was told that the man had been attacked by a “water beast” which had dragged him under the water. In this story Columba sent his follower Luigne moccu Min to swim across the river. When the beast came after him, Columba made the sign of the cross and ordered the beast back beneath the waters of the Loch.