A father and daughter have made the eighth 'official' sighting of the Loch Ness Monster this year while on a hillwalking trip near the loch.
The pair from Chester say they spotted strange movement on the loch while on a recent visit to the area.
The incident has now been added to the ‘Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register', which catalogues all sightings of something unexplained in Loch Ness, becoming the eighth recorded this year.
The post about the sighting, which took place on July 19, read: "A man and his daughter visiting from Chester reported seeing an unidentified movement in the loch.
"They were hillwalking above Fort Augustus and made the sighting at 3.20pm."
The post then adds that though a boat had passed through around 20 minutes before but at the time of the sighting there was no boating activity.
The register, which can be found here, is maintained by a team of volunteers and records all possible sightings of the world-famous loch monster.
Sightings of a possible monster in the loch date back to the sixth century when it was encountered by St Columba.
Earlier this year, a young man visiting from Cambridge spotted an unidentified hump rising from the water for two seconds in Urquhart Bay close to the castle.
Thanks to the pandemic, many of the earlier sightings this year were recorded via webcam, with American Kalynn Wangle making two different sightings of a strange shape emerging on the surface of the loch.
While Steve Challice captured incredible photos that if proved to be real, could be 'some of the best ever taken'.
The pics, which show a mottled hump rising from the water, were taken when Steve was visiting the Loch on a trip from his home in Southampton.
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