Another Promenade Walk at Grange over Sands

This was Thursday morning very early on what turned out to be the hottest ever June day. The flower displays along the Promenade are brilliant. This Goose is a superb carving from wood.

This was high tide, but they are very low high tides at the moment

Norman with Bruce the Parsons Jack Russell Terrier. He gets on well with other female dogs but growls at the male dogs. 

In a few tides time the sea will create islands at these rocks

Long stretches of sand on Morecambe Bay

Grange over Sands railway station next to the Promenade. In Victorian times this would be a very busy station bringing loads of day trippers from the industrial areas.

This marshy area can be quite dangerous

The Promenade

Loads of beautiful shrubs bordering the Promenade

A lovely display of yellow flowers

This was a most enjoyable 2.5 mile walk but the heat was building up and it was only 8.30am when this was taken. We headed back for breakfast and later in the day I brought Gaye back for a short walk but we didn't stay long as it was unbearable due to the humidity.

 

A Visit to Lakeside on Windermere

Rather than start at Haverthwaite and leave the car there we drove to Lakeside to see both Steam Trains and Steamers. We didn't want to spend in excess of £60 on tickets so enjoyed watching everybody coming and going as we sat in the shade on a nice park bench.

It was another glorious day with signs that the temperature might reach 30C in the early afternoon.

This Steamer was full of pensioners with hardly anybody under 70 years of age.

It is a 30 minute sail to Bowness on Windermere and most of the passengers have taken the steam train from Haverthwaite for an 18 minute journey to Lakeside.

A pair of Swans with only one remaining signet

The Steam Train from Haverthwaite

The Steam Train was very busy

The top end of Lake Windermere

Looking down the lake to Bowness on Windermere

Loads of smaller boats running private excursions

Departing for Bowness on Windermere. We thoroughly enjoyed the 2 hours we spent people watching seated in a nice shaded area and near a cafe providing us with Coffee and in Gaye's case Cake as well. Out of the shade it was getting very hot so we headed back to Cartmel where there was not one parking spot to be found, so we just went back to our chalet for a seat on our lovely veranda and a cup of tea.

 

An Old Promenade Walk at Flookburgh

Norman and I set out at 7.30am this morning to walk along the Old promenade at Flookburgh near Cork Airport. It is actually an earth and grass mound to save the farmland from being flooded at Neap Tides

This is the OS Map of our walk. I don't usually like coming back the same way and it could have been a circular walk, but it would have been far too long. It was about 2.6 miles and perfect for two old men and a young dog.

That is probably Morecambe in the distance

Looking across the fields to Flookburgh

A nice copse of trees

The Old Causeway

I would imagine the area in this picture would only flood at the very high tides

A little bit of Morecambe Bay

A salt water pond.

Bruce having a great time off the lead and very well behaved. He may end up being smuggled back to Langholm as he really is a lovely wee dog.

Are you two going to catch up with me.

This was a perfect early morning walk and the temperature was creeping over the 20C mark by 8.30am

 

Two Pre Breakfast Morning Walks and a Visit to Arnside

Me and my new best friend Bruce. He follows me everywhere.

Outside this farm there is a little shelter made out of a tree trunk.

A lovely Gelder Rose in the hedgerow

Looking over the fields to the estuary. We have got into the nice habit of walking before breakfast and with the weather being so hot its the best time of the day to walk.

I love the lovely English country lanes

Part of the walk was through fields and we also had to climb over walls made as stone stiles

Lake District hills in the distance

Our final field on Sunday morning.

Gaye in Cartmel on Monday afternoon. It was much quieter than at the weekend.

The lovely stream going through Cartmel

We visited Arnside early Monday afternoon. We used to take Jean Weatherstone there to see Vic and Lillian Grey about 15 years ago. The train was heading for Lancaster.

We had hoped the tide would have been in but it was not to be. It is quite spectacular when it comes in like a tidal bore. We waited almost an hour and no trains crossed and then one suddenly appeared.

The village of Arnside

It's much more spectacular when the tide is in.

This was our walk on Monday morning

The same stream that passes through Cartmel

The farmers have a good crop of silage

More Silage and fields to cross at the edges

Lovely country lanes

I planned our morning walks on my OS App and it means we never get lost as long as you get a signal you are ok. In England it is all on rights of way and they are usually well signposted but these ones were not marked with arrows, but well used so easy to follow. If you stray of the proper route then laws of trespass come into force and the farmers hate people crossing their land. In Scotland we can go anywhere as long as we walk responsibly.