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Red Screes car park, Patterdale
Red Screes car park
locality:-   Red Screes
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   car park
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   NY40280893
1Km square:-   NY4008
10Km square:-   NY40

observation:-  
The view down Kirkstone Pass from her is splendid, though it's a pity Brothers Water is a dull object. Each car that arrives here produces a person with a camera to take a snapshot. The cameras vary from expensive digital SLR to mobile phones - point down the valley and shoot. Occasionally the photographer doesn't even get out of the car.
Sitting having lunch (without a camera) we observed one family arrive. All got out and dad took a view down the valley; then a view with his wife and children and the valley; then a child took one of mum and dad and the valley, of the sibling and the valley, and vice versa; then there was some fiddling about, the camera was placed on a rock, dad quickly hopped into view to get the whole family and the valley.

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