Elterwater

A glorious Lakeland day, with blue sky over Elterwater as we climbed up the stony old cart track from Great to Little Langdale. An old pine by the track held out its branches like a giant cormorant drying its wings. Ahead, the fells over Little ...

A glorious Lakeland day, with blue sky over Elterwater as we climbed up the stony old cart track from Great to Little Langdale. An old pine by the track held out its branches like a giant cormorant drying its wings. Ahead, the fells over Little ...

Lake Elterwater near Blenheim is so dry that town and country players staged a cricket match on its lake bed not so long ago. The vast 80 hectare lake, which is without water for only the seventh time in 100 years, remains in limbo for the first autumn ...

It did not break the drought in southern Marlborough, but the first cricket game on Lake Elterwater on Saturday brought the community together, organisers say. The Town and Country match for the Broken Bat Trophy was held on the baked mud surface of ...

Lake Outtawater Cricket Match: 1pm, Lake Elterwater. Wear whites if you intendito play. Rules explained on the day. Second pitch for the kids. Enter through Taimate Angus farm entrance off SH1 approx 30 minutes south of Blenheim. Kids bring bikes ...

A cricket game between farmers and townies to be played on a dried out lake bed could be a drought breaker for rural Marlborough, organisers say. The game is scheduled to be played on Saturday on Lake Elterwater, 40 kilometres south of Blenheim, which ...