Holiday in Lake District – Walk in Borrowdale

Another warm and sunny day. But first a re-supply trip to Keswick. Then after returning to the camp site we again walked up the road for a short distance, then left the road at a public footpath which brought us eventually to a field boundary by a track.

Following this track brought us past Castle Rock and then to the River Derwent near the Bowder Stone.

I tool a few photos of the river and found that my Canon G9 packed up! Oh well, at least I had brought my small Olympus waterproof and shock resistant camera.

Next we went back along the river stopping at the “Flock-in” tea room in Rosthwaite to have a piece of cake and some tea before walking the remaining distance back to the camp site.

Later as we were sat by the tent having a brew and reading in the evening sunshine, a small group of youngsters on a “Duke of Edinburgh Award” back-packing trip arrived. I noticed that several of them were pointing up at the sky above. I also looked up and could see what they were all getting excited about: there was a “Circumhorizontal arc” or “Fire Rainbow”.

This is a rainbow-like phenomenon which is caused by the refraction of sunlight by high-altitude ice crystals and is relatively rare at these latitudes and certainly an amazing sight.