Blea Tarn (Watendlath): Difference between revisions

'''Blea Tarn''' is a small valley lake, along with others such as [[Little Langdale Tarn]], [[Loughrigg Tarn]], and one its neighbours, [[WatendalathWatendlath Tarn]]. These types of tarns, eight in total, were formed similiarly to the 17 big lakes of Lakeland. They are essentially smaller piedmont lakes, also known as ribbon lakes, with the distinctive shape of long and narrow stretches of water. The tarn sits in a pleasant hollow, albeit somewhat empty-looking. Its open setting is surrounded by gentle slopes of coarse grassland, in a higher section of the valley 215m above that of its lower neighbour.<ref name="smith23">Smith 2012, p.23</ref> The whole area sits roughly midway across a broad ridge of a peaty moorland,<ref name="blair148">Blair 2003, p.148</ref> and multiple minor unnamed tarns, too small to merit importance. To the south-west are the crags of [[Coldbarrow Fell]], which do not overshadow the water in the slightest, giving a sense of a sweeping landscape with surprisingly little to see, especially at water level. However, the emptiness of the landscape does not detract from its natural beauty. The summit of nearby Low Saddle offers variation in the landscape as do pockets of yellow water lilies.<ref name="blair148"/>