FOUR young girls from the town of Bihoro on Hokkaido, the most
northerly of Japan's main islands, went to Loch Ness yesterday to seek
the cousin of Kusshi.
That is the name given to a Nessie look-alike which first showed up 15
years ago in Lake Kussoro, near where the girls live.
The Scottish loch was keeping its secrets, however, and they had to
settle for the replica monster floating beside the Official Loch Ness
Monster Centre at Drumnadrochit.
The girls are on a four-day visit to the Highlands as guests of
Glenurquhart Secondary School at Drumnadrochit.
Their interpreter was Itsuko Alston, the only official Japanese
tourist guide who lives in the Highlands.
Mrs Alston, whose Scots husband, David, runs the Cromarty Courthouse
tourist attraction on Ross-shire's Black Isle, is hoping to arrange for
a group of Glenurquhart teenagers to go to Hokkaido.
She said: ''This is the fourth year in succession that I have shown
children from Bihoro the attractions of Loch Ness and the Highlands.
They are very impressed with the area.''
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