18 April 2025
Back to Barrow Bay
We’ve spent a bit of time recently visiting past projects and checking on their progress. As well as the visit to Armboth Fell a couple of weeks ago we were also over a Barrow Bay where we took down some embankments last year and installed a boardwalk along the lake shore.
The boardwalk has been a real success, keeping feet dry whilst allowing Barrow Beck to move more naturally across the lakeshore. Giving the beck more space to move reduces unpredictable burst banks and also takes some of the energy out of the flow, meaning it drops sediments such as these gravels before it meets the lake. This is great habitat for insects and other small species who gain protection from predation by hiding amongst the stones. On this visit we managed to find mayfly nymphs and a stone-cased caddisfly under the first couple of stones we turned over!
