The Life and Times of a Part-Time Hunter

Hunter Gatherers

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Some visitors to his camper van still tell him that his story inspired them to leave behind their own office jobs to do something they truly loved. Loch Ness is 23 miles long and a mile wide. For the first ten years Feltham loved in Northern Scotland he just drove round and round the loch, parking and sleeping for the evening at various locations along the shore. So when the owner of the Dores Inn , a pub situated on the northeastern shore of the loch, offered Feltham a bit of space at the end of the car park to set down roots and give the camper a breather, he became a permanent resident with the best possible view staring down Loch Ness.

Be it a new piece of evidence, or some crazy boat expedition that wants me to join them, or a camera crew making a movie here on the beach. He sells them for between six and twenty-five pounds out on his deck and the income is enough to pay his bills his tab at the pub, Internet and cat food. As far as Loch Ness monster tourism goes, this is the lazy side of the lake and Feltham and his models are about the extent of it.

The other side, where the castle sits, is home to the Loch Ness Centre and shops selling stuffed nessies, snow globes and t-shirts made in China.

Last July, a freelance journalist came along and interviewed Feltham. That day he happened to mention, in an offhand way, that he thought Nessie could perhaps be a very old Wels catfish put into the lake for sport fishing around the Victorian era, and just reaching the end of a century-long life.

The story went viral and Feltham now seems to regret mentioning it. Some folks come looking for dinosaurs. Some are looking for giant eels.

I want to see a dinosaur. When I arrived here full-time, dinosaur is what I wanted to photograph.

Part-Time Faculty — Hunter College

He has a board that makes a double bed that stretches across the length of the camper for sleeping. I have breakfast here on the table overlooking the loch, I make a few models and from there the day can go in any direction. I stand out at the beach, watch the stars, maybe the Northern lights, maybe a meteor shower, and I feel a euphoria, a sense of disbelief that I should be so lucky to have this fantastic life. I always fall asleep smiling. Since Feltham has established himself as the go-to authority on Nessie, any tourist who spies something strange or photographs an unusual shape anywhere along the loch is sent straight to the camper.

I helped them push that into the public domain.

Hunter-gatherer

It feels like the elephant, or perhaps the two-ton sea monster in the room. At the end of the day, does it even matter if Nessie is real? Or do all of us, Feltham included, enjoy the indulgence of a real life mystery more than any actual scientific explanation. In an age where we can Google everything, do we need something to remain unknown?

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