Fly Fishing

This weekend my dad and I went for a weekend fly-fishing course in Hampshire. I have only had a quick at fly fishing previous to this in France so I didn't really know what to expect.

The first day we were taught the theory of fly-fishing and spent quite a long time on the lawn next to the lakes practicing our casting techniques without out hooks.

Fly fishing is a sport full of innuendo, although I think I was the only one chuckling when we were told to sort out our tackle and the check our stiff rods!!

The first day I went home without a fish but on the second day I managed to catch two rainbow trout about 2lbs each.

Lake District

A long weekend away and we decided to go to the lakes. We went for a really nice walk on the west side of lake Windermere.

We stayed in a cottage in the Windermere town and caught the car ferry over to the other side. This is well worth a visit if you get a chance, it's super pretty over there and there is lots of wildlife to spot.

On the way home we stopped off at Malham as Denise had never been there. I took her to Janet’s Foss and up to the cove.

Where is Mr Spoon

Tonight we watched the Lunar Eclipse. It was a clear night and denise, me and dom went into the garden to watch the moon dissapear then turn red in a flash gordon end of the world way. I wanted to capture the event on camera and spent about 10 mins in the garden with the camera on a tripod trying to get a half decent picture of it. This proved to be quite difficult as i don't really know how to use the camera. Anyway here is the result.