The surface of Loch Euphort was a perfect mirror, reflecting the ridge of Eval to make a kite on the edge of the loch. Still water makes it so much easier to see anything that is sitting on the water, or feeding under it, so I thought we might just have a chance of seeing something. What I hadn’t banked on was seeing a perfect illustration of a monster.

The easiest way to find the monster is look for the rings of bright water, as they surface, which is a bit of a give away for what these animals actually are. What I have never seen is two otters feeding quite so calmly, completely unperturbed by anything, even me shouting otter to the rest of the group who were further up the hill. Dive, chase, dive and then pop up like corks out of a bottle followed by a monster impersonation. This is because an otter completely at rest, not moving, or bothering about anything has a most remarkable similarity to the three bumps of a Loch Ness monster – head, body, tail seem to be independently buoyant. If you can completely confuse the size, then there were two monsters in Loch Euphort yesterday. Let’s hope they breed.