[JoeProBono]

The image of 'Bownessie' taken by IT worker Tom Pickles on Lake Windermere

The northern basin of Windermere

[mnehring]

It is hard to get a sense of size from that image. It could simply be an otter.

[Flycatcher]

It looks like a stegosaurus doing the breaststroke.

So it HAS TO BE!!!!!!

[Past Your Eyes]

I’m convinced.

[kbennkc]

I am afraid to look. It doesn’t have anything to do with a pleasure seeking MP hanging himself by his braces does it?

[LasVegasMac]

100 lb test ?

[nuconvert]

It looks like several other photos I’ve seen of it. It does not look like it was taken by someone sitting in a kayak. It looks like it’s from a more elevated position than that.

[Cicero]

Maybe it escaped from Beatrix Potter's cottage:

[ontap]

How did I know what this picture was going to look like...typical BS picture and story!!

[choctaw man]

Looks like muskrat love...

[Concho]

Whats in the background? Are those Islands? That is your perspective.

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[JudyinCanada]

I think there’s supposed to be one of these creatures in Lake Erie as well. I keep watching for it, but nothing so far.

[mnehring]

[mnehring]

Maybe it is just one of these.

[DejaJude]

Looks like a string of fishing net buoys to me.

[TheOldLady]

Hubby and I didn’t see anything like that in Lake Windermere when we stopped there. We hiked all the way up to Alcock Tarn, too. Plenty of view from up there.

We didn’t see the Loch Ness Monster either, unless you count the giant plaster statue of it outside the local restaurant and tourist trap at the loch.

[Baynative]

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Not to be a kill-joy, but Lake Windemere isn't particularly deep like Ness (Loch Ness being just less than a 1/4 mile deep). Seems like it would be hard for a large creature to hide himself in a couple of hundred feet of water. And a big reptile has to eat an awful lot of food. IIRC, an adult great white (I know...it's a fish) eats 3% of its body weight daily (with a calf eating around 10%).

If a Nessy-like creature weighed a couple of tons and ate only 1% of its body weight daily, that would be 400 lbs a day (or a whopping 144,000 lbs a year).

That's a lot of trout!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It’s a selkie!