Windermere Way - Day 2 Ferry House to Lakeside

Distance: 10 miles
Ascent: 500m
Weather: cold and sunny

Heron:1 Sunbathing cormorants: 3 Swans: 5

Tree attacks: 4

The first ferry crossing is at 9:50 on Sunday mornings and we got there in plenty of time. We attempted to look at the view from the viewpoint but it was fenced off. Then we had a look around a nature reserve,  where the nature included 'soil'.

The way goes along quiet lanes, some of which were quite slippy with ice and through woods and alongside the lakeshore, some of which was quite wet, especially when the boats went by.

We passed some fishermen who hadn't caught anything and then met a couple of hordes coming in the other direction.

We left the lakeshore to go up to Stott Park Heights where we had a bit of a clamber through the undergrowth and a look off the top of a ladder, before going around High Dam, where there were a lot of people and dogs, although on the main tracks rather than the less travelled paths we were following. We wandered off path slightly to have lunch in the trees at Bell Intake.

We crossed some grassy fields before entering a wood,  where they were in the process of replacing the trees with traffic cones and mud, before reaching the road down into Lakeside.

We caught the last steamer of the day back to Bowness, with a lovely sunset. It was blumming chuffing freezing.