{"id":84,"date":"2026-02-24T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:55:57","slug":"loch-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Loch Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\">The post is re-posted from my wordpress blog. Originally posted 12\/09\/2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LochNess.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" style=\"width:578px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LochNess.jpg 620w, https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LochNess-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2013, I traveled to Loch Ness. During my travels, I found this old diving suit, originally for an action man, and went on an adventure to see if I could find the Loch Ness Monster! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was inspired by the Loch Ness Monster museum. From what I remember was fun, but didn&#8217;t leave me with a definitive answer as to whether the beast existed. So I began my search, at the shore of the Loch near Fort Augustus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent the whole day going up and down about ten metres of the Loch. That&#8217;s a very long way for a little bear. I did stop for lunch, gobbling up my packed lunch of prawn cocktail crisps, pork pie and a banana. I continued right up until tea time, as I was getting very hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My search did not turn up any leads or evidence for the monster existing, or being the Zygon&#8217;s Skarasen. I guess I&#8217;ll just have to go again some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post is re-posted from my wordpress blog. Originally posted 12\/09\/2015 Back in 2013, I traveled to Loch Ness. During my travels, I found this old diving suit, originally for an action man, and went on an adventure to see if I could find the Loch Ness Monster! I was inspired by the Loch Ness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patchys-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}