Derwent Water: Seeking St. Herbert's Island

 In the picturesque Keswick:

We went seeking St. Herbert's Island on Derwent Water:

Having read two versions of Wordsworth's St. Herbert's Island and his Guide to the Lakes (a kind of tourist guidebook), I was aware that St. Herbert had lived on his Derwent Water island in the late 7th century.

Near Friars Crag:

We learnt that St. Herbert's Island is also related to the famed children's writer, Beatrix Potter:

And managed to get some great shots of the lake:

Sensing how Wordsworth's great friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had viewed the lake:

To our reckoning, St. Herbert's Island was the one furthest away on the lake:

Not the one nearest by:

This was a pity, we didn't have time to get close to St. Herbert's Island where the ascetic had presumably grown his own vegetables and caught fish. And in later medieval history, the Crosthwaite parishioners had received indulgences for attending Mass there.

According to Wordsworth, the ruins of St. Herbert's hermitage can still be encountered on the Island (a local told us that the only access to the Island now is by swimming).

As sundown approached:

We raised a toast to St. Herbert (and Wordsworth too):

With a local Real Ale.