 Hello, thank you for joining me. That's Ben Nevis over there, the highest mountain in Great Britain and in this video I'm not climbing it. I'm going to show you something just below Ben Nevis Down here we have the mouth of the River Lockheal or really where the River Lockheal joins Lockheal Which is a sea lock, although we're about 40 miles away from the sea But we're only about one and a half miles away from Fort Williams So I've just walked up from Fort William and we're going to go and Explore the ruins of the old in the Lockheal castle, which is just over there and this Castellated bridge we see here. This is what carries the Fort William to Malague Railway So steam trains pass over this most days when they're working to Jacobite and Whether the camera is going to pick it out, but just below that hill over there You can see the carriages. That's where they're stable for the night. So looking out that way. That's the River Lockheal looking out towards The lock and then the town of Fort Williams that way and as I said that that's Ben Nevis the highest mountain in Great Britain. I've never been up there. I suspect so will one day. I have walked up Snowden I've never been up Snowden on the train, but I have walked up it So no doubt one day but not on this visit. I will climb Ben Nevis and no doubt the view from up there must be Spectacular because you will literally be on top of Scotland. Oh, I can just see See the smoke that is one of the steam locos off the Jacobite steam train probably 45407 because that one was out today And I don't think we're gonna be lucky enough for it to come over the bridge But you might just be able to see it now Emerging from behind the carriages. So that was a nice surprise. I wasn't expecting that I'm gonna stand here to let this cyclist get past me And we're going to carry on to the old Ruins of Inverlochie Castle Interestingly, there's also over camera can see it. I can just see someone in a canoe coming on that must be quite fun to Canoe down the river. So what we're looking up there. That is the Great Glen So it goes up towards Spenbridge and beyond and So this was a rather strategic location to build a castle in the 13th century. We might just see that canoe It should appear from the other bridge about now. There we go Must be a nice way to spend the evening. Well, he's probably been doing it all day. He's probably been Rowing his way down there from well, who knows how far he's come and I'm sure that's a really quite an exciting thing to do Anyway, let's go and have a look at the castle and let you have one more view of the river and as we turn You might just be able to see the steam loco in the distance. So this video wasn't Supposed to be about trains. It was meant to be to show you the castle, but bonus if we get the black five in We're gonna go under the railway now Under that little bridge there. We're gonna go and explore the ruins of old Inverlochie Castle And I don't know too much about it. So I'm just gonna really observe and show you what there is to see We're trying I'll try to build a picture of how it would look like so as we approach the castle here It's just behind the trees. I imagine there was probably a harbour here off the river So supplies could have been bought in by boat if they needed to be I'm gonna go through here and behind the trees is what's left of the castle. So it's some Squarish castle with four towers on each side, but this one here. This would have been effectively the keep the main one where you know all the meals would have taken place and Everything it's um, you know the real the headquarters of the castle So we're just coming up to it now. They're doing some work on it So it's all fenced off. You can see there's a bit scaffolding on the top So maybe in a couple of years time, we might be able to come back and go inside the tower But at this stage and we can only see the tower from the outside But what we can do is we can go into the inner Bailey So we'll do that now and we'll have a little wander around So here we are Here is the Interior of the castle I'll show you this board here And because this shows what the tower cut away how the tower would have looked And then there's the tower today. It's the same thing with this tower We can't go in this one. This one is also fenced off possibly because of falling masonry But we can go in the other two towers. So we'll do that So it says this area of the site is currently closed awaiting consolation work So, yeah, we're not going in there But what we'll do we'll go and have a look in those two towers where we can go and we might get more of an idea of what the towers would have been like and then that's the other entrance and Looking through towards Ben Nevis. So we'll go out that way before we finish the video. So I'm just tripping over some of the rocks Here we go into one of the towers So that's one of the That's a good one. See where this goes I'm not going to go any further No doubt this would have been a staircase that would have gone around the edge of the tower once take you up to the next level Take you back out again We'll go back out Into the main Bay of the castle We'll have a look at the other tower and then we'll go out the front I'm going to walk back to Fort William after that. So it's been just a quick Look around the castle. This castle is free to visit and it is fairly easy to get to if you fancy One and a half mile walk from Fort William. Although actually Bannerby station Is probably nearer if you could if you want to come here by train But this evening I'll walk from Fort William. There's not that many trains on the line up to Malague. So And walking if there had been a train during about 20 minutes I'd have probably run over to Bannerby and got the train back into Fort William. But instead I'm going to have a rather pleasant walk back So we're now going to exit the castle through here get one more view of Ben Nevis There we go Ben Nevis is quite nicely framed in the The archway and then here we are here Is the other side of The castle So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment from outside in the locky castle. Thank you very much for watching. Goodbye