Day 3

It rained. It slowed to a trickle, and then, it rained again, and then some more.
While this was happening, it blew, blew a gale, and then, continued to blow.

I went up towards Catbells and walked down to Kitchen Bay and the Hawes End ferry landing stage.

I was expecting to find no-one there, but, to my surprise, there were about 30 kids, all dressed up in red rain coats playing on the shore with five miserable looking teachers stood under the trees trying to keep out the rain. After fifteen minutes, a ferry came along and they all trooped up to the landing stage. After about 5 had got on, it was ascertained that they had got on the wrong boat, so those on, all trooped off again. Fortunately, their boat appeared from the opposite direction and the two boats swapped places. Finally, all on the second boat, they all sailed off.

I didn't see anyone else until their boat returned about 90 minutes later, and they all disembarked in an orderly and controlled fashion.

Shortly afterwards I moved on to the Threlkeld Mining museum and joined up with a group from LPH. Diving under cover I got some good shots of rusty machines.

Back to Keswick for a tea, then back to LPH for tonights inquisition, torture, verbal undressing in front of the assembled guests run through todays images with helpful hints on how to improve both the taking and the processing.