Surprise View in Keswick
If you drive about three miles outside of Keswick up the Borrowdale Road, you’ll cross the famous Ashness Bridge and arrive at Surprise View. From the top of this cliff you can look over almost all the Derwentwater and beyond to Bassenthwaite Lake.
St. Herbert’s Island in the Derwentwater, the landscape of Beatrix Potter
This week I read a collection of 22 Beatrix Potter stories, and while the Lake District is easily recognizable in Miss Potter’s charming illustrations, I was completely surprised to be able to find among my own pictures of Derwentwater the very Owl Island that the squirrels in The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin sail out to on their rafts to gather nuts for winter.