Saturday 27 August 2016

Ullswater Way - Day 1

Distance: 12.5 miles
Ascent: 500m
Weather: hot and sunny
Cormorants, mallards, honky geese, black backed gull, greenfinch, damselflies
Competitive dad: 1
"Fun" dad: 1
Bottoms: 2
Midges, lots of midges
Squeaky thing: squeaking

We caught the earliest ferry at 9:45 to Pooley Bridge, calling at Howtown to pick up some midges. Lunch and insect repellant was purchased in town and a quick decision made as to which direction we would walk the first section. We decided the along the south eastern side today, for no particular reason.

It was warm and sunny, becoming hotter later and quite busy. We stopped for lunch on a rocky outcrop, with fine views over the lake.

Being a bank holiday, there were a lot of people out walking, mountain biking and kayaking. People were as people are.

We stopped to investigate a brown squeaky mammal (probably a mouse) in the bracken, and had some close encounters with a damselfly and a bee.

We are staying at the Patterdale Hotel, and had a sit in the beer garden with a couple of pints on our return.

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