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BYE!

At the Post Office

Nessie, neatly packed in an envelope, is on her way to Scotland. All the children will miss her.


Bye Nessie!

Preparing Nessie for Scotland

Now Year 6 children are packing dear old Nessie for her return trip to Scotland.

That's the end of the Journey for dear Nessie

Now, Nessie had a good view about Gozo. He travelled wide and far and here is a photo shoot of the dream team!

The Clockmaker's Saltpans

The location of these saltpans are at Xwejni Bay, Marsalforn. They are also very near another village, called Zebbug. A clockmaker from Zebbug acquired some two hundred years ago the salt pans at Xwejni - he planned to exploit this area but his invention failed,he was sued and ruined for life and then died. This watchmaker was also an ingenious counterfeiter of money and a skilful potter.

The stolen altar cloth

According to the legend a sailor stole an altar cloth from this church and hid it on his ship. When the ship was ready to leave port, they pulled up the anchor but the ship did not move even though there was a strong wind. The captain was very worried about this strange thing. After some time the sailor went to the captain and told him the whole story. The captain was angry and told him to take it back to the church. When he returned it back all of a sudden the ship started moving and continued his way to Sicily.

Nessie inside Calypso cave

Josianne, Marica, Leanne, Jeremy, Joloui, Jason and Stefan are holding Nessie inside Calypso Cave. Nessie could see the cave with the beautiful scenery of Ramla bay where Calypso held Ulysses for seven years before letting him leave the island to go back to his family.

Nessie at Ta Kola Windmill

Jeremy, Joloui and Stefan are holding Nessie near the crasher
in front Ta Kola Windmill. This huge stone was used by
the owner to ground the wheat to produce flour for the making of bread.

Ta' Kola Windmill

This time, Nessie visited ta Kola Windmill . This is situated in Xaghra. This windmill used to ground wheat but these days it is a tourist attraction.It' s owner was Kola and that is why it is called Ta' Kola.

Visit to the Hermit SAN KERREW

Nessie and the Year 6 group now visited the crypt dedicated to Saint Kerrew. This hermit, used to live in Mosta, living in a cave. The people always tried to make fun of him. Once, a woman tried to play a trick on him. She tripped all her clothes on her washing line on the soil. Now she reasoned that if Kerrew would help her that would mean that he wanted to pester her and if he did not help her, that would mean that he was not helpful.

San Kerrew went to help her and her people started making fun of him. Realising that he was being mocked but such ungrateful persons, he put his mantle in the sea. Miraculously, the mantle turned into a makeshift boat.

He travelled to Gozo on his mantle. He settled in a cave under an old church. There he stayed until he died. Now, this cave (see photo) is a centre of pilgramages. (Nessie felt a bit cold here.....and it was soooo humid)

Nessie visits Menhir at Qala

Nessie's first visit for today was at Qala village. She visited the menhir (menhir= a large standing stone). You can see behind the children.
The legend goes that an old lady used to carry such large stones from Sannat village to Qala. She used to eat loads of beans, everyday. Beans, beans and more beans. She got all her strength from these beans.

Look at this one....

The Truth At Loch Ness Is Often Stranger Than Fiction!!!

New files have been released under the Freedom of Information Act that clearly show that Mrs Thatcher's government believed in the existence of Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and actively investigated methods for protecting her. Once The Morning Glory program on Channel 4 got to hear about it they turned to leading Loch Ness monster expert Mikko Takala for the official view.
Senior civil servants were concerned that attempts to hunt and capture Nessie could result in harm or even death to the unknown creature and so a great deal of government time and money was spent researching options for her protection. Eventually they concluded that she was well covered by the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, which gives protection to all wild creatures whether or not they are known to science.
Later, the Swedes approached the British Foreign Office for advice on protecting Storsjo monster, Sweden’s equivalent of Nessie, which is believed to inhabit Lake Storsjo (in the north of the country). This prompted all sorts of memos between mandarins in both countries including this from J F Buckle, an official at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. He wrote “Unfortunately Nessie is not a salmon and would not appear to qualify as a freshwater fish under the Salmon and Fisheries Protection (Scotland) Act 1951.”
Another official was worried for Nessie: "We should maintain the likelihood of protection for what would be a very rare species if ever identified.”
While many of the failed monster hunters of the 70s and 80s now set up exhibitions and contact the media in an apparently desperate attempt to persuade people to give up their belief in Nessie, these newly declassified documents from the government clearly show that she is believed to exist at the highest levels. Indeed, government interest in the Loch Ness Monster didn't end under Mrs. Thatcher's reign. As recently as 2001 The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency tried to set up a panel of "experts" including formally unqualified former monster hunters who now try to debunk the existence of the monster and other folk who wanted the right to control future hunts for the monster. This website was proud to be part of the successful campaign to stop this nonsense which could possibly have fallen foul of European laws on prejudice and curtailed everyone's right to try and find the monster.
The good news is that the Swedes copied our country's lead and in 1986 they passed laws to give their monster similar legal protection to Nessie.
Finally, when Channel 4's Morning Glory team arrived from London with a satellite uplink truck to film a live interview with Mikko about all this, they were trapped by Nessie and had to be hauled out of her grip!!!

Associated Press
LONDON -- Lloyd Scott has just spent 12 days at the bottom of Loch Ness, but he reported no sightings of the lake's legendary monster.
On Thursday, Scott emerged at Lochend, near Inverness, after walking 42 kilometres along the loch bottom in an antique diving suit in what was billed as the world's first underwater marathon.
Scott, 41, from Rainham, east of London, said it was a very hard journey.
"I've had to cope with poor visibility, which has at times been nil, I've had to work against the resistance and the pressure of the water," he told reporters.
"You don't know what's underfoot; sometimes its mud, silt, rocks or nothing. The air line also kept getting caught and I also had to deal with a build-up of carbon dioxide in the helmet. It's also very cold and very lonely."
Scott has become well known for completing land marathons in the diving suit; this was the first time he had used it for its proper purpose.
"It's definitely been far more difficult doing it underwater than it has been on land," he quipped.
Scott began his journey on Sept. 28 at Fort Augustus on the opposite end of the loch.
A former firefighter and professional footballer, he spent more than a month training for the marathon, which raised money for the charity Children with Leukemia.
For decades, people have reported sighting a sea monster in the picturesque loch, but despite the efforts of scientists, Nessie's existence has not been proven.

Here is Nessie!

Oh! here is Nessie! Well cared for by our Year 6 pupils. Seems that he is getting loads of fun....actually the children are taking him for a trip around Gozo.....

See you guys!

76 years old?

is he really 76 years old?
is he really in scotland?

Found this information about our dear Nessie. Where is he now? He is 76 years old 1933 - 2006

LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTED:May 2, 1933
Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sightingmakes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related anaccount of a local couple who claimed to have seen "an enormous animal rollingand plunging on the surface." The story of the "monster" (a moniker chosen bythe Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sendingcorrespondents to Scotland and a circus offering a ý20,000 reward for capture ofthe beast.Loch Ness, located in the Scottish Highlands, has the largest volumeof fresh water in Great Britain; the body of water reaches a depth of nearly 800feet and a length of about 23 miles. Scholars of the Loch Ness Monster find adozen references to "Nessie" in Scottish history, dating back to around A.D.500, when local Picts carved a strange aquatic creature into standing stonesnear Loch Ness. The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a7th-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introducedChristianity to Scotland. In 565, according to the biographer, Columba was onhis way to visit the king of the northern Picts near Inverness when he stoppedat Loch Ness to confront a beast that had been killing people in the lake.Seeing a large beast about to attack another man, Columba intervened, invokingthe name of God and commanding the creature to "go back with all speed." Themonster retreated and never killed another man.In 1933, a new road was completedalong Loch Ness' shore, affording drivers a clear view of the loch. After anApril 1933 sighting was reported in the local paper on May 2, interest steadilygrew, especially after another couple claimed to have seen the beast on land,crossing the shore road. Several British newspapers sent reporters to Scotland,including London's Daily Mail, which hired big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherellto capture the beast. After a few days searching the loch, Wetherell reportedfinding footprints of a large four-legged animal. In response, the Daily Mail carried the dramatic headline: "MONSTER OF LOCH NESS IS NOT LEGEND BUT A FACT."Scores of tourists descended on Loch Ness and sat in boats or decks chairswaiting for an appearance by the beast. Plaster casts of the footprints weresent to the British Natural History Museum, which reported that the tracks werethat of a hippopotamus, specifically one hippopotamus foot, probably stuffed.The hoax temporarily deflated Loch Ness Monster mania, but stories of sightingscontinued.A famous 1934 photograph seemed to show a dinosaur-like creature witha long neck emerging out of the murky waters, leading some to speculate that"Nessie" was a solitary survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquaticplesiosaurs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65million years ago. Loch Ness was frozen solid during the recent ice ages,however, so this creature would have had to have made its way up the River Nessfrom the sea in the past 10,000 years. And the plesiosaurs, believed to becold-blooded, would not long survive in the frigid waters of Loch Ness. Morelikely, others suggested, it was an archeocyte, a primitive whale with aserpentine neck that is thought to have been extinct for 18 million years.Skeptics argued that what people were seeing in Loch Ness were"seiches"--oscillations in the water surface caused by the inflow of cold riverwater into the slightly warmer loch.Amateur investigators kept an almostconstant vigil, and in the 1960s several British universities launchedexpeditions to Loch Ness, using sonar to search the deep. Nothing conclusive wasfound, but in each expedition the sonar operators detected large, movingunderwater objects they could not explain. In 1975, Boston's Academy of AppliedScience combined sonar and underwater photography in an expedition to Loch Ness.A photo resulted that, after enhancement, appeared to show the giant flipper ofa plesiosaur-like creature. Further sonar expeditions in the 1980s and 1990sresulted in more tantalizing, if inconclusive, readings. Revelations in 1994that the famous 1934 photo was a hoax hardly dampened the enthusiasm of touristsand professional and amateur investigators to the legend of the Loch NessMonster.

Have you seen Nessie, the Lochness monster? If by chance you happen to see it, please send in your information.....:)