16 September 2014

The plan for today is to do the scenic 1-hour drive from Keswick around to Buttermore and back to Keswick. One hour if you don’t stop 57 times to take photos. We don’t know how to do that. There are pullouts for a change. It took us 3 hours. Here is a sample of the photos.  Apologies for the exposure issues. It was hazy and these are jpegs - not tweaked in LightRoom. 

Note the lack of a center line. 

These guys looked like they were waiting for someone to take their picture. 

We stopped back at the B&B to drop the car and walk to lunch. Michael took a snooze and we headed back out to Glenridding on Ullswater – a half-hour in the other direction. The goal is a trip on one of the steamers that sails up and down the lake. Round trips are about 2 hours. The clouds seem to move in at this time of day – or maybe it’s just the lake effect. I had a nice chat with an older woman who lives on the lake. Her husband said she has Alzheimer’s. Not too bad, yet, fortunately. 

There are several anchorages on the lake and a yacht club. We saw a number of boats out sailing. We sailed on the Raven, which was built on the Clyde and transported in pieces to the lake. She was reassembled and launched in 1889. In the 1930s she was converted to diesel. 

The lake is 7.5 miles long and the boat goes from one end to the other with a stop about midway for hikers

Sister ship to the Raven headed back to Glenridding

Ullswater Yacht Club

Lone sailor out on the lake

Sun shining through the clouds

Dinner at another Jenning's pub. Local trout. and back to the room to get a place to sleep on Skye.