Whilst looking for walks to do during our trip to the lakes, we came
across Elterwater, a small lake just outside the village of the same name. The
walk was maybe 4 or 5 miles but we didn’t complete the whole thing because we got lost.
The first part of the walk was through fields around the lake, with
amazing views of the fells in the background. We made it past a couple of
unnerving cows and arrived at Skelwith Force, a 15ft waterfall. The spray
from the water created a rainbow.
The
next part was to walk to Skelwith Bridge. I thought that it meant an
actual bridge, so when we reached the bridge over the waterfall that’s the way
that we went. It turns out that it’s actually a place and we’d gone the wrong way, but the views on the walk back made up for this.
