GLW2004 : Betty Botter’s Batter Butties

Wednesday 9th February 2022

Inspired by BOOTboys'  BB2206 : A Tarn With No Name?, we decided that now we knew its name, Otter Tarn, it would make a suitable destination for a Great Little Walk.  First, however, we need to eat so we headed for the Café Ambio at the Lakeland Motor Museum. We had an ulterior motive for checking it out.  Dinah and Alan are scheduled to visit this coming weekend and the forecast is dire.  Somewhere indoors is needed.  We thought a visit to the Lakeland Motor Museum would appeal to Alan and hopefully also to Dinah and lunch at Café Ambio to them both.

On the menu were fish finger baps.  Just the job for today we thought.  We thought pretty much the same when they arrived, other than the fact they were massive.  Eating them was a different matter.  Load of batter, some of it soggy inside, and very little fish to be found.  Captain Bird’s Eye would have flogged the chef on the yard arm.  Hence us renaming them Betty Botter’s Batter Butties.

Feeling rather laden down with axle grease, we drove past the entrance to the Otter Tarn estate and found a place to park opposite the start of the bridle path that leads to Back Reddings Allotment and Otter Tarn. 

We explored parts of the tarn untouched by BOOTboys plus some that had been.  It is a very pleasant place even if the signs made us feel somewhat unwelcome.

The path on the north side of the water led us up and away from the tarn.....

..... sighting the Lakeland hills.....

.......... then past the smell-free gas tank and the secret nuclear war bunker.....

..... and back to the road on which we had parked, opposite the gates to Bigland Hall. 

Should we continue to Bigland Tarn?  No, we thought.  Seeing all the rhododendrons made us realise it would be much more colourful in May and, beside which, lunch was having an unwelcome effect.  Consequently, we shot along the road to the car, powered by Betty Botter’s Batter Butties' Boisterious Botty Burps!

Don, Wednesday 9^th February 2022

  Otter Tarn Stats:  3.6 miles     840 feet

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