This Summer is going swimmingly

Well it's not been too dry of late has it?

The good thing about the Lakes though is that there's always plenty to do even when it's raining.

Last weekend we had a fantastic time at Troutbeck Pool where they have an inflatables session on Saturday afternoons. Great fun for grown ups as well as kids.

We then dodged the showers to go on a waterfall walk. The fell sides are covered in small streams as a result of all the rain and the waterfalls are at their best.

Here's one of our favourites about 10 minutes walk from the lodge.

Walking down the mossy bank beside the falls was just like stepping on a sponge!

Of course all this water has to go somewhere so the beck that flows through the park has been at the highest level I have seen it for about 4 years. In high summer this is just a trickle!

Here#s what it looks like normally: