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Published: November 10th 2017
Church on island
This is on Derwentwater LakeGeo: 54.5995, -3.13256
First I need to tell you that I made an error on my last blog. The gravesite we found was for my great great grandparents. My great grandparents are buried in Detroit. Thanks Aunty for straightening this out. We got up early yesterday, had a quick breakfast and headed out to Keswick. It looked like it was going to be a nice day so we walked into town, about a 15 minute walk. Its a cute tourist lake town. We walked all the way to the boat docks and boarded a boat. They make 8 stops around the lake. We took photos of the mountains and got off at the Lodore dock to hike to the waterfalls there. They had a bad flood last December and the easy bridge to the falls was washed out. We took the scenic route. We got there and I decided to go farther up the trail to get some better shots of the falls. And I do mean up! The trail was very narrow, steep and slippery with lots of rocks and tree roots sticking out. I made it to the top, but had to find a different trail to go back
down as I was afraid that I would slip and tumble down. We stopped at a hotel near the falls and had a nice lunch. Then back to the boat. We went to one more stop,got off and got back on another boat going in the opposite direction. By now the sun was out and it was very nice out. Also the second boat had an open bow and we could see better. We finally got back into Keswick and found a pub for a drink. After that a rest and dinner. This morning we got up and drove around the area on a tour we found in our Rick Steve's book. It took us through the Newlands Valley, then up to the Newlands Pass, where there was a big waterfall. I hiked up to that fall also. It was a little easier than the first one. We drove thru a few tiny villages, over Honister Pass and stopped at the Honister Slate Mine. This mine has been in operation since the 13th century. It closed for a while in the 1900's, but is in operation again. They still make slate roofing tiles for buildings here. The average life span
of these tile roofs is 300 to 400 years. I took a tour of the mine, but Stacy decided to skip it. It was very interesting. We got back into town and drove over to the Castierigg Stone Circle. It is a stone circle that has been around for 4500 years. Its about 90 feet across and built with rough stones. Then it was back to the hotel for a little rest and then out to dinner. It was raining pretty good when we left for dinner, but stopped while we were eating. Tomorrow we might drive to the west coast for a look see.
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Considering there is no longer a bridge there, I don't know if I'd trust those supports...just saying.