Friday 5 August 2016

An Evening in Roughton Gill

For one reason and another we hadn't made it onto the fells this week. Saturday would be our first free day, but you probably know by now, we don't do Fell Walks on Saturdays. That's the whole point of being retired! So instead, we decided to to a little evening walk.

Having parked at Fellside we head down towards the ford across Dale Beck. We know this place like the back our our hands (or paws) but I don't think it is somewhere you could ever get fed up with. Very few people seem to visit and I think it would have been a real surprise if we had seen anyone else tonight (we didn't!)

We chose the slightly higher path than the normal beckside track

Breeze Zooming as usual


The Track we generally walk on is visible on the right hand side of the beck

We will undoubtredly walk on these fells in the next week or so. This is as good a place as any to come in the middle of school holidays.

Lots of sightings of Dippers tonight - not the best pic, but difficult to keep the camera still enough on full zoom

Crossing the beck on our way back down.

A quick (rather gormless on my account) family photo as we cross Hay Gill - the bridge provided somewhere flat to stand the camera.
A lovely evening stroll of about 4 miles. We saw a fair bit of bird life and plenty of sheep, but not another human.

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