A short holiday

I haven’t put up a blog post for a while, as I have been in the lake district for the last week. I got the chance to do a bit of training for the expedition – i.e. I filled a daysack with 12 kg of weights and did some walking in the heat (around 28 degrees Celsius), amongst the forests and mountains. I know I’ll be walking in the jungle with a lot more than this, and with higher temperatures and humidity, but at least this was a start at walking in the heat with a weighted rucksack. Anyhow, it was a really nice holiday. I enjoyed seeing a newly-fledged Dipper learning to bob in the beck just outside where we were staying. We also saw a Cormorant tussle with a rather difficult-to-swallow eel, and an Osprey flying over Esthwaite Water. The photographs of the cormorant were taken on the bridge camera I think I will take to Peru.

               Going ...                                           ... Going ...                                            ... Gone!


The Cormorant seems to have regretted swallowing the eel. There was quite a fight, and on several occasions, the eel seemed to almost be strangling the Cormorant.

The young Dipper outside our accommodation.