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| Lakeland canoeists brave icy waters to reach Swallows and Amazons island | Lakeland canoeists brave icy waters to reach Swallows and Amazons island |
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| A Lakeland island with a secret harbour, its shingle shore frosted with ice and rime glazing the rocks above, recently lured canoeists powered by sail out of season. Peel Island on Coniston Water was, it is said, the inspiration for Arthur Ransome's Wild Cat Island in Swallows and Amazons. | A Lakeland island with a secret harbour, its shingle shore frosted with ice and rime glazing the rocks above, recently lured canoeists powered by sail out of season. Peel Island on Coniston Water was, it is said, the inspiration for Arthur Ransome's Wild Cat Island in Swallows and Amazons. |
| Lakeland islands have long intrigued visitors. St Herbert's Isle on Derwentwater is better known to Beatrix Potter's readers as Owl Island, where squirrels Nutkin, Twinkleberry and cousins voyaged for nuts using their tails as sails. | Lakeland islands have long intrigued visitors. St Herbert's Isle on Derwentwater is better known to Beatrix Potter's readers as Owl Island, where squirrels Nutkin, Twinkleberry and cousins voyaged for nuts using their tails as sails. |
| Grasmere's tiny tarn has a pretty little island in the middle. Here, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "We drank tea the night before I left Grasmere, on the island in that lovely lake, our kettle swung over the fire, hanging from the branch of a fir tree." | Grasmere's tiny tarn has a pretty little island in the middle. Here, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "We drank tea the night before I left Grasmere, on the island in that lovely lake, our kettle swung over the fire, hanging from the branch of a fir tree." |
| An archipelago of islands just north of Ferry Nab virtually cuts Windermere in half, separating the north and south basins. The largest include 40-acre Belle Isle with its circular house, and Thompson Holme, Hen Holme and Lady Holme, which look in winter's chill waters as if cut out with pastry cutters, their leafless trees resembling brooms stacked together. | An archipelago of islands just north of Ferry Nab virtually cuts Windermere in half, separating the north and south basins. The largest include 40-acre Belle Isle with its circular house, and Thompson Holme, Hen Holme and Lady Holme, which look in winter's chill waters as if cut out with pastry cutters, their leafless trees resembling brooms stacked together. |
| All quite different from spring, when Peel Island more resembles "a green tuffet, sitting in the water, the trees covering the rocks", as described by Taqui Altounyan, inspiration for one of the characters in Swallows and Amazons, in her semi-biographical novel, In Aleppo Once. | All quite different from spring, when Peel Island more resembles "a green tuffet, sitting in the water, the trees covering the rocks", as described by Taqui Altounyan, inspiration for one of the characters in Swallows and Amazons, in her semi-biographical novel, In Aleppo Once. |
| Sometimes it is possible to reach islands near the shore by sliding across the ice, as witness the rocks scattered on the surface to test the going ahead, and sticks thrown for a labrador to fetch, to see again how just far the ice will flex when weighted. | Sometimes it is possible to reach islands near the shore by sliding across the ice, as witness the rocks scattered on the surface to test the going ahead, and sticks thrown for a labrador to fetch, to see again how just far the ice will flex when weighted. |
| It was nearby in 1967 Donald Campbell sadly met his death when his speedboat, Bluebird, flipped doing 300mph. | It was nearby in 1967 Donald Campbell sadly met his death when his speedboat, Bluebird, flipped doing 300mph. |
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