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The Visitors Page - 02 I'm delighted to have received pictures from viewers of Loweswatercam, so I have decided to post them here for others to enjoy. If you wish to send me a photo and some information about it, feel free to do so and I'll try to include it on this page. It needn't be just about the Lakes, it can be about anything you've done recently.Click here if you wish to email me your contribution. I reserve the right to withhold, censor or generally edit any comments as necessary, and I accept no responsibility for photos or comments posted. Keeping photo sizes below 100 Kb would be appreciated. 10x7 jpeg or 7x5 jpeg vertical at 72 dps would be excellent. Don't forget that short explaination too . . . thanks. ( If you follow any of the links on this page, a simple keyboard backspace should get you back here.) Go to Visitor's Page : 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 .14 . Home
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Hi Roger and Ann, (not forgetting Harry and Bethan) I know the one of the Langdale Pikes has been
done may times before but I just could not resist. All the best, Dave and Josie from Silsden |
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Blea Tarn, by Dave |
The Langdale Pikes, by Dave |
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Roger and Ann, It's great to have you back posting again. That's my wife Doris and I with her brother who was visiting
from Preston. The location is Badwater, Death Valley, at 281 feet below
sea level it is the lowest point in the western hemisphere, that's not
snow, it's the dry salt lake. The 'Natural Bridge' is a three mile hike
from the edge of salt lake up a flash flood river bed. The arch has been
formed over the millennium by the occasional flash flooding. With the
Death Valley annual rainfall at less than 2 inches a year, one can only
imagine just how long it took to hone out that rock face. The other photo
is of a hike into the Golden Canyon, so named because of the rock colouring.
Once again the rock formations were caused by flash flooding, and this
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Hi Roger and Ann, Welcome back from your holiday, it looked like quite an adventure, thanks for sharing the photos with us all. Was it something you arranged yourselves or did you go with an adventure travel company? ( We planned the holiday ourselves. The Dog Mushing was an organised
trek which Ann found by searching for "Cold Weather / Dogs".
. . RmH) I was a bit shocked to see Harry's injury when looking at your site
today, I shouldn't think he was very happy when it happened, hope he
his back to normal soon. John and Dee. (Photo below: Amber on Latrigg, Feb 07) |
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Hello, I am a 73 year old woman that spent her childhood living in Cockermouth. After school (I attended Cockermouth Grammar School) I would go home for high tea then I’d get on my bike a cycle to Lanthwaite Green farm. My friend, one of the farmer’s daughters, Isobel Jackson, was in my class at school. I’d come one way, via Lorton and go back the other way past Loweswater. Your photos bring back such strong memories, of riding home in the lovely evening sunlight through the woods and evening bird song – especially the cuckoos! Thanks for the memories! Pat Miller (Dodge) Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada (Hi Pat, The Jackson's no longer live at the farm but your friend
Isobel turned out to be an aunt of Susan Todd, who lives locally at
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Hi Roger, Just back from Lakes, had a great time. We were going to do the long walk around Rannerdale you suggested, returning back down other side of Lake. We drove to Crummock Water on Sunday morning. When we got there it was that windy we could hardly get the car door open, so we chickened out and just did three nice short one.We really enjoyed it and look forward to doing the longer one next time we are over. The scenery was beautiful even though we could not see the tops.We
called in the Kirkstile for a pint after the walk. I've attached a photo
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Hello Roger, Just a short message of thanks to you and your co-enthusiasts David and Andrew for the wonderful web sites. I have been sidelined with a serious back injury for the last three months and the best therapy has been looking at the walks and images you post. When I checked your site this week I was amazed to find you had been in my hometown of Silsden -(Pendle Weekend) - hence the catalyst to e-mail you. My wife and I often visit the Lake District and it has been extremely helpful to look at your web sites for hints and clues as to how to vary walks from the "motorway routes" and find the more peaceful places. As an avid reader of Mr Wainwrights books it is heartening to know that people still respect the old fellow's outlook on the area. We are staying at the Royal Oak at Braithwaite on the Friday and Saturday of 9th and 10th of February (£15 per night special offer is too good for a Yorkshire lad to turn down), we know you will get far too many offers to meet people to fulfil them all, but if you feel you would like a drink on us as a small thank you for your web site, and a natter, please feel free to join us. We are relative newcomers to both computers and digital photography but I attach a couple of pictures from our last trip to the lakes so that you that know we do exist! Best regards, Dave and Josie Dimmock
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Josie below the Nant Bield Pass |
Dave above Haweswater |
Oh ,how I am happy that you are back again, By the way, why do you have to look for other places when you have
the luck to live in the most beautiful place in the world. Some three
years ago we were at your front door to personally thank you for the
nice pictures that you put on the web, but unfortunately you weren't
at home either (somewhere in Iceland
in July I think) but we saw your parents that were looking after the
house and we asked them to do our greetings. We saw the dogs too. We
did Melbreak that time and we started the walk around 6 o clock in the
morning because it was incredibly hot at that time. Greetings from Luc Porte in Belgium who visited the Lake District for some 25 years in a row but has to give up because of bad knees(with pain in the heart) ps here are some pictures we took from the walk on the day we parked at the phone box just opposite your doorstep (Luc's homepage is http://www.belgian-beatles-site.com
. . . . RmH)
Melbreak's Northern Summit
Looking down on the Buttermere Valley
Luc on the western shore of Crummock Water. (You can almost smell that warm, summer bracken . . . Thanks Luc . . . RmH) |
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Joe Boyle and two halves of his son (?) in Donegal |
Spring Lambs - same as Loweswater only Irish ! |
( Prompted by your photo of the spring lambs in West Cumbria ) Hi Roger, My father passed on in February so we took my mother home to see all the family in Donegal. We gave him a good send off. Hope you are all well. All the very best Joe 'n Sue Thanks Jo- Sorry to hear about your Dad, but glad you were able to part with such good memories - RmH. |
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The Boyle's Green House Bar, in the family for the
last 50 yrs. |
Inside the Green House |
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Unforgattable Donegal, from above my father's house. |
A strong wind was blowing today. |
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The Spanish Armarda's Santa Anna Duquessa was wrecked
here. |
Wild beaches and wild Riverdance ? |
. . . . Photos by Joe Boyle. |
