Out final fling with the G-Ks, to celebrate their last two years in Bonnie Scotland and impending departure to France, was on the most perfectly still Loch Vennacher:
Loch Vennacher (from Gaelic, Bheannchair, meaning horn shaped, from the Loch's tapering ends) glistens in the heart of the Trossachs. During the last Ice Age huge sheets of ice, up to a mile thick, inched over the land, grinding, scraping and gouging out the deep trench of the loch. Its horns have been tamed by a dam which passes across the mouth of the loch, raising the water level and softening its outline.
From the Loch shore you can see Ben Venue. It's name in Gaelic is A'Beinn Mheanbh (pronounced ben ven-en-v), the little mountain. It might look large at the end of the loch, but it's dwarfed by Ben Ledi, Ben Lomond and Ben More (in Gaelic Beinn Mhor, meaning big mountain). The mountains in the National Park have Gaelic names, which often describe their size, shape or colour, or the animals and birds that live on them).
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| The boys having a go themselves |
It was a fabulous day and we're all most definitely gonna miss these cousins!!
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