Muddy Waters

During my cycle to work, I pass the confluence of the River Caldew with the Eden at the Sheepmount. Despite the Eden carrying the additional waters of the Petteril, which joins her in Rickerby Park about a mile upstream, the bedrock allows the water to retain its clarity, even when in spate. The chocolate coloured Caldew  tells of a different  journey down a silty, river bed from Skiddaw through the Caldbeck fells. Today, as the two rivers met, the contrast was spectacular with two distinct colourways jostling for supremacy, Eden’s clear waters the eventual winner, racing onwards to the Solway