EDITOR’S BLOG: Nessie puts food on your table

Nessie’s in the news again. No she’s not been sighted, in fact there’s been no sightings for a couple of years now.

She being dismissed by ’snooty’ Invernessians. They think they’re above the trinkets and mythology that brings the thousands of tourists to their city year after year. They want to position themselves as a cosmopolitan city it seems.

But Nessie is also in the news today because the high priest of of white witches, or whatever Kevin Carlyon calls himself, is bringing a bunch of his pagan mates for a showdown on the shores of Loch Ness to prove Nessie is in fact a ghost.

What would the high fliers of Inverness do if Nessie was laid to rest, or Mr Carlyon found another monster to tame elsewhere?

We are lucky enough to have one of the world’s favourite unsolved mysteries on our doorstep. Loch Ness is a huge draw for the Highland-bound tourists as a whole. They don’t come all the way to Drumnadrochit and then turn back if they don’t see humps of Jurassic pond life lurching before them.

Why can’t Inverness have the best of both worlds? Nessie is an unpaid tourist magnet that many towns and villages would die for.

Yes, it produces a market for tat, but the people who buy tat, still need to eat and sleep, and two old sayings spring to mind: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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