After lunch we left farmland behind and the terrain became more rugged and typical of the Lakeland fells. This was the scenery we had set out to see and we began to feel very satisfied although a little worried about the long way we still had to go that day.
Fortunately the sun kept shining and we passed some lovely bubbling becks. Some had some really good bridges, as in our next picture. These are great for bears as when there are no bridges we often find we have to pole vault across streams that our minders simply step across.
The last 5 or so miles were along the shore of Lake Coniston. This is our favourite Lake District lake and holds a lot of happy memories for us. Unfortunately there wasn't time to linger as the Bluebird bitter in the Coniston Black Bull was beckoning. The shoreline path enabled us to speed up our progress but we all took some time out to admire the double rainbow which appeared over the lake.
It was a long first day's walk but a good one. We were very glad to put our feet up in the B & B and have a hot shower and a snooze before strolling to the Black Bull for a well earned pint (or two!)
Lots of love, George, Isaiah, Wooly & team xxx
2 comments:
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One of your minders!
What Norfolk branch have discreetly ommitted to mention is the fact that Suffolk branch's minders provided rock hard bread rolls which would have been useful if we had come under attack and needed a weapon but took FOREVER to munch, which is why we had to speed up as fast as our paws / hooves would take us in order to get to the Black Bull in time!
Isaiah
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