Someone who appears to have even idler hands than me has been trolling Google Earth and discovered …the Loch Ness monster.

Don’t believe me? Key in 57°12’52.13″N 4°34’14.16″W and see for yourself

Appears it surfaced at the exact instant the satellite zipped overhead and I think I can barely discern a flipper (or whatever monsters have) being waved in greeting.

Unless of course it’s a couple of blokes out fishing, having just discarded an afternoon’s worth of beer cans (clearly visible to port) from the fizz boat.

Windsurfers and other water sport fans are confusing locals in Nackenheim, Germany by asking for directions to “the lake”, a new feature which Google Maps displays prominently on the outskirts of the village to the west.
(Long skinny blue bit = Rhine river; small triangular blue bit = Google lake)

Your eager local reporter took it upon himself to research the issue and found only a freshly harvested barley field at the designated location.

Didn’t even get his feet wet.

(Well, did, in fact, splash the boots, but that was down to an unpredictable gust of wind…)