Water Sports in Lake District By Vineeta M Greenwood

Cumbria is one of the largest county in England and yet least populated. The unsurpassed natural beauty of this wonderful gifted land has made it a constant attraction for serenity seekers. Every year, thousands of visitors make their way to Lake District in search of peace in its tranquillity. The amazing Lake district, Cumbria has so much more to offer than just a sight seeing. The Lake District has a versatile landscape with numerous valleys, mountains and lakes.

The Lakes are obviously the reason this district gets it name from.

These lakes not only ad to the picture perfect charm of this district, they also provide excellent sport activity opportunities to the visitors who want leisure with an added sense of adventure. The major lakes include the Lake Windermere, Lake Derwent water, Bassenthwaite Lake and the Ullswater.

The waters of the Lake District offer a great location for many water sports like Waterskiing, Watersurfing, sailing, Kayaking, Canoeing and you can even hire a boat for fishing. The hot spots for water activities are majorly near the town of Ambleside, Windermere and Keswick.

Low Wood Sports and Activity centre

Low Wood Water sports Centre is situated by Lake Windermere, the largest lake of the Lake District. This water sports centre offers multiple water sports activities including Waterskiing, surfing, Sailing, and Canoeing. You can even hire yourself a self-drive motorboat or a traditional row boat, ideal for fishing or just a trip around the Lake Windermere. Many Windermere hotels are located near this wonderful facility. Some of these Windermere hotels are the Denehouse hotel, the Sawrey house country hotel and B&B.

Derwent Water Marina

The Derwent water Marina is situated near Keswick in Cumbria, an ideal location for all of the water sports and mountain activities. You can get canoes, kayaks, sailing dinghies, windsurfers and rowing boats for hire, an excellent way to explore the wonderful Derwent water. Other facilities include car parking, showers, toilets and changing rooms. Few nearby Keswick hotels include the Linnet hill hotel and the Lynwood hotel in Keswick.

Glenridding Sailing Centre

Glennridding is a beautiful small village only miles away from Ambleside. Glennridding sailing centre is an excellent place for the visitors to experience and learn sailing. Both leisure sailors and the sporty ones can sail across the spacious lake with a variety of boats to choose from. The staff is really helpful one and assures your safety and assistance throughout your stay.The place keeps updating itself with latest and up to date facilities.

If this is the place you are going to sail around in the Lake District then you can book any of the Ambleside hotels only a short distance away.

Vineeta Greenwood is the co-editor of Keswick Hotels Fairy, a part of Hotels Fairy, an independent hotel price comparison website dedicated to Keswick. Hotels-Fairy.com has one of the world's largest hotel databases and compares prices from all the major online booking sites, making it easy to find the best deals on hotels in a matter of seconds.

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