Adventuring Swallows & Amazons Style

Well, would you believe it, we're having so many adventures this year that another adventure starts before we've finished telling you about the previous one. We simply can't keep up with our posts, so you'll have to excuse us if we do a bit of backwards time travel in our blog.

We're only going back to last month though, when we had a simply superb camping adventure in the Lake District. We set up our camp in what is probably our favouritist place in this country, Hoathwaite farm at Torver, near Coniston.


We love it so much as we are able to camp very close to the shore of Lake Coniston and have great lake views from our encampment. It is simple camping with few facilities, but that suits us fine as camping is, for us, all about the great outdoors and getting close to nature. We took our Mirror sailing dinghy, 'Miri' with us, and our walking boots and planned a week of wonderful outdoor adventures following in the footsteps of our Swallows & Amazons heroes.

Before we could start our adventuring though we had to observe the ceremony of the raising of the bear flag.


Here we are standing respectfully to attention while the flag was raised. You can see the raised flag flying in our earlier picture.

Don't you just wish you were there too - we certainly wish we were still there.

Lots of love, the B.U. Swallows & Amazons adventurers xxx