Water, Water, Everywhere

We Drove along Ullswater about two thirds of the way down the lake then turned off to visit the largest and most visited waterfall in the area, Aira Force. We parked in a National Trust car park a short walk from the actual falls. Along the way we came across a fallen tree trunk encrusted with pennies, not to be left out, we hammered in a penny of our own. Then we made our way to the falls with only a slight up-hill detour to another car-park (don't listen to other tourists shouting directions to each other). The falls were quite impressive and almost encased in the surrounding stones. We took a further venture along the stream at the top of the falls to another, smaller waterfall, Rushing Waters where we were able to cross the stream and climb down the other side of the river. We were lucky enough to have a dry almost sunny morning so it was quite an enjoyable trapse through the woods.