The Lake District National Park is a national park full of approximately 94 lakes , though in typical and peculiar English fashion only one of those lakes is actually called "lake", Thus the Lake District actually consists of a single lake (Bassenthwaite Lake) and dozens of meres, waters, and tarns. Go figure. This is Bowness on Windermere, an example of a lake that is specifically not called a lake. The Lake District requires a lot of input water (rain) to maintain itself, and today the weather obliged. Like the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District farmers have four staple things they grow: grass, sheep, cows, and stone walls. This is a stone wall. Stone walls are an unpredictable crop. They love to make roads look very not-wide and do not play well with cars. These are boats for hire in Bowness for rowing on Windermere. Although Gordon was slightly keen on rowing, there were several reasons to not hire these boats. These reasons included: it wa...
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