A dad-of-four is convinced he spotted the Loch Ness Monster and said: “It looked like the hump of the body and the back of its head.”
Shocked Steve Valentine was holidaying with his wife Maria and their kids when he suddenly spotted the “black shape” in the water.
They were on a boat trip around the famous loch and were just heading back when it caught his eye.
Quick-thinking Steve, 44, grabbed his phone and managed to take a snap.
He showed the driver of the Deepscan boat who was stunned and said he needed to register it as an official sighting of Nessie.
Steve, Maria, 41 plus Daisy, 12, Jasmine 10, and twins Henry and Ivy, seven, went to Loch Ness, near Inverness, Scotland for their summer holiday.
He said: “We went to the Loch Ness Centre first, it was a very impressive exhibition.
“We then did the cruise around the loch.
“We were just on the way back to the dock, it was quite a calm day.
“There was nothing else on the surface of the water.”
But holidaymaker Steve, of Urmston, Greater Manchester added: “I saw this black shape, it was a bit of a distance, about 200 metres away, near Urquhart Castle.
“I thought I needed to get a photo of it, which I did.
“But one of the kids jumped on my lap and the boat turned around.”
No one else on the vessel saw it, but he added: “It was then when I zoomed in the photo.
“It looked like the hump of the body and the back of the head.
“I was shocked.
“I showed the photo to the driver and he was quite taken aback.
“I am quite open minded, I was genuinely shocked.”
Steve’s photo taken on 17 August is the fourth credible sighting of Scottish folklore creature this year.
On 15 June Etienne Camel and his wife Eliane, from Lyon, France were visiting Loch Ness from Lyon and claimed to have spotted a 65ft long dark shape moving just beneath the surface of the water for several minutes.
Another tourist, Ceci, from the USA, also saw something mysterious for a number of minutes on 31 May.
On 5 April, Francesca McGarvey, of Paisley, was visiting with her mum and dad when she claims she spotted humps in the water.
All four were recorded on the The Official Register of Loch Ness Monster Sightings.
It was compiled by Nessie expert Gary Campbell who has been doing it since 1996.
It comes as the biggest hunt for the Loch Ness Monster in over 50 years was launched on Saturday (26 Aug).
Drones with infrared cameras and a hydrophone were used.
Last Wednesday, a potential underwater lair of the monster was found,
