In Britain, it is the usual ‘sport’ to complain about the sheer amount of water we receive from our grey skies – but at least it makes for wonderful photos! Here are some of my favourite stretches of water…
Conwy Estuary on a very wet evening
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We’ll start with Scottish lochs – this one is down Glen Etive…
and then there’s ‘The Map of Scotland’ – Loch Garry…
This is my favourite loch photo – Loch Enoch in Dumfries & Galloway…
Loch Lomond with its many islands…
The Welsh ‘llynau’ are just as beautiful… starting with the scenic Llyn Gwynant
And then this little apparently-private llyn (Crafnant) where we got accosted by a fierce Welsh Dragoness for visiting!
And then of course, there’s the English Lake District – starting with the strangely-named Tarn at Leaves…
The lovely Buttermere:
And the superb tarns above it on Haystacks:
The next pool had so many croaking frogs in it, we thought it was motorbikes coming up the mountain! 😉
The shallowness of the mountain tarns gives them a lovely light…
Haweswater – much enlarged into a reservoir but, to my mind, still beautiful…
And finally… the Queen of the Lakes – Derwentwater:
The Adventures of a Mountain Coward 
Lovely photographs Carol. I too like the clarity of the Loch Enoch photo, and the Buttermere and Derwentwater ones – well, they are so photogenic you can’t go wrong really. The first photo of Conwy Estuary gets my vote for technical merit – it’s superbly moody!
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Thanks – I’m very fond of the Conwy Estuary photo – it was a really crappy day but there was just a bit of nice light in the evening 🙂
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Wonderful scenery and exceptional photos. Thanks for sharing them.
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Thanks 🙂 We do have superb scenery here – we just need better weather to enjoy it!
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Great pics, the Lake Distrct Tarns take me back, be good to get up there again soon.
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Thanks 🙂 It’s always good to get back to the Lakes…
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Wonderful, Carol 🙂 I particularly love that one of Loch Enoch.
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Yes, I think it’s the light on it – it was pretty late on a winter’s evening when I took it.
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Nice selection of photos Carol 🙂
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Thanks Simon 🙂
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Some lovely pictures there Carol. I am not sure what my favourite loch is!
I heard a load of frogs the other weekend while walking in Glen Lyon and thought they were forestry workers cutting trees until I realised!
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Frogs en-mass are amazingly noisy aren’t they!
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Well, I’m enjoying the photo posts Carol – might just have to plan a trip to the Lakes after seeing this collection!
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Nowhere better than Haystacks to lazy around on a hot, sunny day 🙂
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Lovely set of photographs Carol. Don’t think I’ve climbed Haystacks yet as I don’t remember the pools there. Still got loads of new hills to visit down in the Lake District..
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Haystacks is one of the nicest hills in the Lakes and a pretty easy walk too 🙂
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Beautiful photoset Carol….why, oh why am I stuck in an office in Leeds when I could be beside one of those beautiful lakes…
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It’s always good weather when I’m at work and rarely when I get my time off!
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A beautiful series of photos, Carol. ‘The Map of Scotland’, Buttermere and the Haystacks tarns look fantastic, especially the reflections up on Haystacks. I hope the Welsh Dragoness has calmed down! 🙂
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Haystacks is literally littered with tarns and they’re all beautiful 🙂
The Welsh dragoness calmed down quite a bit when my Dad talked to her in Welsh…
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That’s different! I love that view of Loch Garry. I once camped at the side of that bridge across the narrows. It was very midgiefied, if I remember corrrectly.
Alen
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Everywhere in Scotland is midgiefied – especially in the west! 😉
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Lovely!
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Thanks Jackie, still having to be photo posts I’m afraid…
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Sorry to hear that Carol. Best wishes, Jackie 🙂
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