'Secret Lochs and Special Places' is a new book buy Bruce Sandison. Surely a must-read for everyone!
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Bruce is offering a complimentary copy for the first correct answer to this question:
Where is the River E and why is it so named?
First correct answer posted in this thread wins.
My part of the world.
East of Invermoriston across Loch Ness on the Corriegarth Estate, it runs northwest into Loch Mhor.
Local stories have it that when Wade was surveying his roads he got fed up with the Garlic names and just called them A,B,C,D, and thus E. The other story has it that they were deliberately looking for the shortest name.
The River E is a river in the Highlands of Scotland. It begins in the north-west of the Monadh Liath, to the south-east of Loch Ness. It runs in a north-westerly direction for about 10 km, before flowing into Loch Mhòr.
The river has a small hydro-electric scheme. This run-of-the-river scheme has a capacity of 3MW, and is operated by RWE Npower. Construction of the scheme began in 2006, and it was commissioned in 2007.
Quote from: hopper on November 24, 2015, 08:03:34 PM
The River E is a river in the Highlands of Scotland. It begins in the north-west of the Monadh Liath, to the south-east of Loch Ness. It runs in a north-westerly direction for about 10 km, before flowing into Loch Mhòr.
The river has a small hydro-electric scheme. This run-of-the-river scheme has a capacity of 3MW, and is operated by RWE Npower. Construction of the scheme began in 2006, and it was commissioned in 2007.[4]
Good old Wikipedia!
Was you reading that particular article at the same time too !! :lol:
Put it on Santas list.
I don't know the answers so can't say if any of the above are correct. Keep your answers coming in and Bruce will check them.
Quote from: hopper on November 24, 2015, 08:07:53 PM
Was you reading that particular article at the same time too !! :lol:
Pretty much. I knew my "local" stories but I needed to check that there was not another Loch E before making a fool of myself (again).
Flicked through it the other day. Looks a good read. I know someone has already bought it for my Christmas so I'm afraid I'll decline giving the right answer.
Looks like Inchlaggan is the winner! Ken, would you be so kind as to email
me (bsandison@btinternet.com) your postal address, pleases - I seem to
have lost it - Bruce
Many thanks. Days spent in local pubs listening to old fishing tales has not been wasted after all.
Email sent.
Ken
River 'E' is nestled lovely between River 'D' and River 'F' . lol
Quote from: Roobarb on November 25, 2015, 11:42:45 PM
It may indeed be, there might be a whole alphabet of them out there somewhere. That said the only other one I know of is the O Brook on Dartmoor in Devon. I don't suppose there is a prize for that!
Andy
Was that what the founder said when he first stepped in it? :lol:
Bought it in Glasgow yesterday and it's been put away with the wading jacket for the 25th.
I must have four of Bruce's books now as well as a doubler of rivers and lochs.
Billy
Items like these are spot on for XXie Pressies to tell your youngsters about, especially when the "youngster" of the trio of youngsters is not far off forty, and long since lost as to what to get the old geezer .... who has a cupboard full of "stuff".
Just got this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Lochs-Special-Places-Sandison-ebook/dp/B014JABRO4/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452380326&sr=8-1&keywords=bruce+sandison (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Lochs-Special-Places-Sandison-ebook/dp/B014JABRO4/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452380326&sr=8-1&keywords=bruce+sandison)
Well I stopped buying fishing books - they tend to be a bit boring - but at under 3 quid I'll certainly go for that. :D
Well I just read chapter one in the Kindle edition of this book and it has made me realize that it's been far, far too long since I last fished in Caithness. Far, far too long.
A great read Bruce! :8)
You'll say the same thing about Shetland. A great wee book.
I'm certainly going to Caithness this year anyway Paul - not been since 2011 - a caravan at Oldhall if I can get one at short notice.
Let's hope Hugo is in one of his "up" moods when I go, last time I was there he was brilliant.