(09-27-2021, 11:03 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Look at the shadows thrown by the canoes in the two images, The TOS image doesn't have them, at all.
I'm 99% sure it's from a different video, but also from a different place.
I took a retake of the entire video and it seems the scenes aren't in a sequence we'd expect when viewing
the Great Glen Canoe Challenge (II) in a continuity-form.
Ignoring the YouTube thumbnail (when the mouse is hovered over the visual link only shows the actual drone
shots and Richard Maver mouthing silently), we open the video with a scene where the group are already beached.
As Gordi points out, Richard's son -Sam Mavor, is credited with the composing of the backing music and after a
quick drone glance, Richard genially explains his route across Loch Ness from Fort Augustus. (The southern end of
the loch.)
But the impression one gets is that after leaving the river, they arrived at the eastern-side of the loch and due to
repairs on one of the gang's canoe, Richard hints to the camera that this is where they're spending the night.
(I believe the day was used-up actually getting onto the Loch itself.)
The background shows the canoes nestled amongst large moss-strewn boulders very close to the water and trees
overhead.
No wide expanse of shingle and on a bend in the shoreline -as in the drone footage, but Richard later is seen doing
a spot of fishing, he then states its Day-3 and they've found the shingle beach where they are now camping once
more.
This is where the drone captures the first so-called underwater 'shape'.
The next morning, Richard says they are 17 miles from the other end of the loch and the Ness is classified as 23 miles
long. This probably means his group are just across and south on the loch from Urquhart Castle and on Google maps,
there is a stony beach with a slight projection at one end that resembles the footage shown.
But it's almost opposite the castle and we're not sure where Richard deems the end of their Loch Ness Journey.
Is it where the river Ness starts or the town of Inverness?
Five miles on, they beach again and have lunch. A bit more paddling, and Day 4 is over and they're camping onshore,
close to the Loch Ness Equestrian Centre. The drone once more, shows the eastern beach and this time, we get a tiny
glimpse of our second monster sniffing around a red canoe.
Richard thanks the viewers for passing the £10,000 mark for the charity.
The next day, they leave for Inverness.
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And that's it. No commentary about strange shapes in the water and no buzz-words that are often found around the
subject of Loch Ness. Just a few men and a dog messin' about on the water... for charity!
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