Full flow.

An ill advised walk round Goit stock this morning. Not as wet in terms of rain as we have seen over the past couple of days but very grey and damp.
The beck (Harden Beck) was fast flowing and full, though perhaps a little less high than had we walked here on Monday or Tuesday.

We kept together (four of us) up the beck side to Hallas Bridge and then it became
more of a slither and slide than a walk as we came back along the top side of the woods and across the fields. A and D were specks in the distance by the time we reached the 'woolly rings' field so I stayed with our newer walker A and Hamish.

Back above the caravan site we rejected the faster field route past Ivy House Farm, knowing it to be a very muddy path and walked up the metalled Leech Lane back to the village. As we walked into the open the rain decided to come down more heavily. We passed an inevitably muddy sheep field where all the sheep stood stock still. It was quite bizarre watching them not moving at all! Maybe that is what sheep do in the rain.

The photo is of the main Goit Stock waterfall. It was quite dark and this multi shot shows a nice swirly effect of the moving water ( Best Large). D had spotted some dippers at the top of the waterfall. One had flown down to rocks at the side and the other was just visible to me as a tiny white dot at the top.

More fast flowing white water here.