Watchman Hunting Messie Analysis

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Watchman Hunting Nessie In 1991 Steve Feltham sold his house and set off to live his childhood dream of finding the Loch Ness Monster. Since that day, his home has been an ex mobile library van which he is now based full time on the shore of Dores Beach. Seventeen years he has been watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness for one decent sighting of the monster that has to be considered dedication in anyone’s eyes. Since he was wanting to do this since he was a little boy it is more of a dream come true for him. At age 7, he and his family visited the Loch Ness investigation Bureau which is a team of volunteers that each summer would set up a makeshift camp on the loch side near Urquhart Castle. The platform the volunteers had built is what caught his imagination and inspired him. …show more content…
He soon realized he was in the wrong job. But the things that got him most while working in people’s homes was the number of retired folks who would say how they should of went out at his age and lived their dream. He then realized where he was at his happiest, and what interested him the most. He then quit the relationship and put his house on the market. Before he made a solid decision he set out on a three-week hunt to make sure it wasn’t some pipe dream that wasn’t right for him. On June 19, 1991, he arrived at the loch and became a full-time monster hunter. He finally knew that he had never been happier. To fund himself, he made the idea of making little models of Nessie out of clay and sitting the monsters on rocks gathered from the shore. He was sure tourists would buy them, but in his first year he found them hard to sell any of them. The main problem was that nobody knew what he was doing or why. But he realized as long as he was following his dream that is what truly

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