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Day 70 Laggan Lock to Fort Augustus

 

We started together from Laggan Lock and walked along the Great Glen Way initially through Forest tracks alongside the Caledonian canal on our left. Today, we saw a number of school parties canoeing down the canal. 

      


At the end of the forest track we passed the Laggan swing bridge and then the renovation of the Invergarry railway station (now disused). I turned back with Alfie here.



Garry continued . As the forest track petered out, he walked passed some low lying fields to Oich bridge, another swing bridge that this time he crossed (in error)….   



         

                                              
Quarter of a mile further on, he had to turn back because there was an overflowing weir so he had to backtrack to the other side of the canal to Cullochy Lock. 

                                        

 He then carried on with the River Oich to his left and the Caledonian Canal to his right, along a well defined cycle path to the lochs of Fort Augustus.


Once the tasks of clothes washing and showering were completed we both wandered back into Fort Augustus this afternoon, where he had a coffee and watched the boats (and a large cruiser, the 'Lord of Edinburgh') moving up and down the series of locks, very similar to Neptune’s staircase.

          

Nearly 12 miles walked for Garry and 4.5 for me. 

Tomorrow, the walk takes us from Fort Augustus to Invermorriston.

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