Great news that a Loch Ness landmark, the Bona Lighthouse, is finally to be restored. Over £450,000 is to be spent on the restoration over the next two years by primarily British Waterways who own the building, and The Vivat Trust, an organisation which repair and convert old and unusual buildings in to holiday homes.
The lighthouse stands at the north end of the loch where it meets the Caledonian Canal and was built (along with the canal) by Thomas Telford, one of the greatest civil engineers of the 19th century.
Not many people know though that 200 yards east of Bona Lighthouse are the remains of Bona Castle. It is also known as Castle Spioradain. Spioradain comes from the Gaelic for 'spirits'. It is said that the castle was haunted by the ghosts of some Cameron hostages who were murdered there. It is also said that the trees growing in the ruins, rubbing together, made strange, ghostly noises which could account for the castle's name!!!