Stand Up Paddle Boarding on Buttermere Lake District

Hi, I'm Betty and last year I moved to the Lake District. I've always been at my happiest exploring in the great outdoors and can usually be found hiking, paddling or swimming here or further afield. Join me each week for a new adventure, please subscribe and come wandering with me. Hi folks, I hope you all had yourselves a fantastic week. Today we've got the paddleboards out, we've got them pumped up and ready to go and we've got ourselves a beautiful flat morning on Buttermere, so quite excited. There is quite a few biters around, so they're having a little nibble this morning as we were pumping up the boards, so I think it's time to get the buoyancy aid on and hit the water. Let's go! So we're going to take a clockwise rotation of Buttermere this morning, probably follow the shoreline for a bit and then just see what we can find. Beautiful morning, let's go and enjoy ourselves. Before we head out today, I'd just like to mention that a boating permit is needed to paddle on Buttermere. These can be bought for the day and cost £5 and can be purchased from the National Trust car park in Buttermere from the car park ticket machine. Alternatively, you can go online and buy annual passes. Alright, let's go and enjoy some paddling. So we've just paddled to the bottom end of Buttermere from where we set off towards Fleetworth Pike and this helicopter started to fly around and has some parachute jumpers coming down from the fells. We're just starting to wonder what's going on and a fellow paddleboarder has said that So we've inadvertently ended up on a film set which is quite good fun. Some of them must have crashed. There's a discarded parachute in the trees. So we're just heading back, tummies are starting to rumble. The wind's picked up a tiny bit so there's a little bit of a ripple on the water now but it said it would do that. Water is so beautifully clear. You can see the bottom still. Oh you can see me, hi! It's really warm as well. At the end of the morning we were ready for some brunch so we went in search of a cafe to find a feast and came across this beautiful tea room in Buttermere. Thank you so much for watching folks, I hope you all have a fantastic week and I'll see you all soon.