Windermere

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A beautiful and poignant ceremony was held on Windermere in a moving tribute to those dealing with breast cancer.

On a stunning clear Sunday morning, October the 18th, Paddlers for Life Windermere set out across the lake, donned in pink and fancy dress to raise awareness for the disease.

The group of primarily breast cancer survivors held the annual Pink Paddle to mark the end of their paddling season.

the ceremony involved their two dragon boats and a tahitian v six outrigger linking together with members tossing flowers into the water a moment of silence was then held to remember those lost to the disease and those still dealing with it in the group Paddler Diane Mountain, 62, said, It's a very beautiful and poignant ceremony.

Earlier this year was recognised as one of the UK's top visitor attractions by Visit England.

The museum also won the Accessible and Inclusive Tourism Award at the Cumbria Tourism Awards last year.

A decision on the future of Applethwaite Green Care Home in Windermere has been delayed for a second time after months of campaigning by residents, families, staff and community groups fighting to save the home.

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The Stagecoach Summer Network, Windermere Lake Cruises, and the Allswater Hopper minibuses all run from March 23rd to November 1.

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right.

You're still outside looking in.

Exactly.

To actually get into the park from Oxenholm, you have to catch the Windermere branch line.

Okay.

I still want to have swam in the lake.

Imagine swimming in Lake Windermere, though.

You'd be freezing.

It's very cold in there.

Several records have also been set there for traversing the length or breadth of the Loch on canoes, kayaks and paddleboards, while several people have also swam the Loch, beginning on the 26th to the 28th of July 1966, when then 18-year-old Congleton resident Brenda Sherratt, who passed away on the 18th of October 2025, became the first person to swim the length of the Loch.

in 31 hours and 27 minutes these achievements for she'd also swum coniston water lake windermere and baller lake amongst others earned her induction into the international marathon swimming hall of fame in 1970 as an honest swimmer and was the start for her of a near 40 year swim coaching career Perhaps more impressive is the USA's Pat Gallant Charette, who holds several Guinness records for epic swims, and who was aged 67 years, 198 days, when she swam the length of the Loch on the 19th of August 2018.

Starting at Loch End of 5.26am, she finished at Fort Augustus at 7.12pm, a duration of 13 hours, 45 minutes, 45 seconds.

More recently, on the 23rd of September 2022, British ultramarathon sea swimmer Ross Edgley, who also holds multiple world records, but is most recognised for completing the world's longest staged sea swim in 2018, when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles around the UK in 157 days.

wonder where he got his initial interest from in swimming the Channel.

Well, apparently when he was 15, he did his first swim 10 miles around Lake Windermere.

Really? I mean, so he must have had...

He's keen, isn't he? No, he's obviously been very keen.

And swam, what do you say, around Windermere? Well, he

started when he was 15 in terms of long-distance swimming.

Ten miles swim around Lake Windermere.

Yeah, I mean, I wonder how far that went.