Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Photos: Lake District #8 The Ambleside Waterfall

Woke up very early and decided to see Ambleside while everybody else is in bed. While walking around, I noticed this rather interesting stream and decided to follow it upstream. Here is a photo essay (and the slideshow) on what I found. It was quite challenging, specially with my wonky knee and fat gut.

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But never say die, I started off at a fascinating pub.

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Looking up the stream (called as Stock Ghyll). The waterfall starts way up on the side of the mountain.

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A lovely old waterwheel. This was supposed to be the old mill.

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Can you see the roots? Specially the one in the middle? Looks like a woman’s leg, bent at the knee.

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Lovely house, so many differently angled roofs.

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Walking up the side of the waterfall

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Following the signs.

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Well, one has to be careful…the marked path.

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What a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the stream. More on the video at the bottom.

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The lower waterfall.

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The lower bridge across the stream

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One of the rivulets which come down the mountain to join the main stream.

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Another view of the lower bridge.

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There’s the top waterfall. Not quite Angel Falls, but quite nice and good. Quite a long way to walk as well, in the slippery rocks, it was raining as well and the ground was quite wet. But right at the top, you can see a tiny sliver of a bridge. That’s my top target.

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Looking back down the waterfall.

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This is the path on the left hand side of the waterfall which I was scrambling up. Relatively easy pathway but not for a corpulent fat git like me.

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The upper Bridge.

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Somebody had left flowers at the top. It says something like, “Mum, I remember that you loved to come up here and watch the waterfall, this is for you”. Quite poignant. Loved it.

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Now I crossed the bridge and started on my way down. The path was very wet, very slippery, very muddy. I was getting concerned about my knee so was walking extremely gingerly.

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Extraordinary sight. This tree stump had coins driven into it. I have no idea why this happens. Some kind of a tradition?

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This is the path coming down. See what I mean by very wet, muddy and slippery? Not recommended for people with gammy knees.

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There’s the lower bridge from the opposite bank.

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Another view of the waterfall.

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The trees were nekkid but if the weather would have been good and in the summer, it would have been spectacular. I wonder if we can go back again?

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Here’s the lower bridge.

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Water flowing over mossy stones.

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Another tree stump with coins driven in. Extraordinary. What on earth are these people doing in Ambleside?

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Came across an overturned log which had loads of mushrooms growing on it.

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Typical. lol


But I thought you might want to like to listen to what I found. Lovely noises. And since it was so early, it was very quiet.

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