Something in the river explained?

Dear Editor:

You can keep your UFOs and sightings of aliens in the western deserts and central Australia. We have our home-grown mystery guest right here in Annapolis County. Some say its a whale or large porpoise which sidled through the dormant turbines of the Annapolis Causeway Power Plant, while those of us who are of Scottish Heritage know that our own wee monster of the deeps is actually Nessie.

When her own residence in Loch Ness in the highlands of Scotland was subjected to an unholy array of siesmic probes, radar, sonar and fishers with boneless, funny, southern accents trolling the depths with nets, our bonnie lassie decided enough already! So she emigrated to get away from it all.

Having navigated the Caledonian Canal to the Atlantic she next appeared in Patagonia as Nahuelito. She was then seen as the Flathead Lake monster in Montana, and that sighting was followed by Manipogo in Lake Manitoba. She has also been sighted as Champ in Lake Champlain, as Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, in Lake Erie and New Brunswick's Lake Utopia.

Now that Nessie has arrived on the east coast it looks as if she is headed home. Who knows? Limited sightings daily, weather permitting, between Annapolis Royal and Bridgetown.

Calum MacKenzie

Middleton