English Lake District Daily Briefing for Monday 7th July 2008
Updated on Sunday at 9.25p;m
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Appletreeworth Beck, Broughton Moor [6/7/2008 by Tony Richards]
Where is this? (click here to see)
The Fairfield fells across Bowness Bay, Windermere [6/7/2008 by See more daily pictures from Sean McMahon]
Saturday's Lake District Pictures
Windermere, from the Hammarbank car park, clouds left on the Langdale fells following a shower [5/7/2008 by Tony Richards]
Bassenthwaite Lake from Ullock Pike [taken on 5/7/2008 by Flickr user johnoakey]
Ullock Pike [taken on 5/7/2008 by Flickr user johnoakey]
A big thunderstorm rolling in. Silhouetted and still clear are the Coniston fells and the Langdale Pikes [5/7/2008 by See more daily pictures from Sean McMahon]
Rush bearing in Ambleside: flowers and thunder [6/7/2008 Find out more about this picture at "By A Mossy Gnome"]
Friday's Lake District Pictures
Where is this? (click here to see)
Tarn Hows [4/7/2008 by Tony Richards]
Where is this? (click here to see)
Wise Een Tarn at Claife Heights, near Far Sawrey, Windermere [4/7/2008 by Anne Bowker]
The footbridge across Swindale Beck at Truss Gap, near Seat Robert, Shap [4/7/2008 by Andy Malcolm]
Other Recent Lake District pictures
The radar station on Great Dunn Fell, in the North Pennines part of East Cumbria [Thursday 3/7/2008 by Anne Bowker]
On a clear day the radar station can be seen with the naked eye from the Lake District . It is a key part of the Air Traffic Control system for the North Atlantic area. Alfred Wainwright abhors this radar station in his book Pennine Way Companion.
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
The Inca city of Machu Picchu, Peru [4/7/2008, my own picture]
OK, they are really World War II tank traps on the banks of river Wey in the city of Guildford, Surrey. Also known as Dragon's teeth they were laid to strengthen the country's defences against a possible German invasion.
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards visits Broughton Moor on Sunday, Hawkshead Hill on Saturday and Tarn Hows on Friday
Mad About Mountains - Ann Bowker walks Claife Heights on Friday and Great Dunn Fell (the North Pennines) on Thursday
Gateway2The Lakes - Andy Malcolm walks Seat Robert, Shap
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