A girlfriend I was on top of a place called Lilly Tarn on Loughrigg Fell overlooking Ambleside at the north end of Lake Windermere, 6 years & 2 weeks ago. It was a beautiful cloudless, flat calm day with unlimited viz & the lake was like a mirror.
We'd hiked up to the summit, got a bit 'frisky' & to cut a long story short, within a couple of minutes, we were bollocko with her Ladyship straddling me going for all she could. Then I heard it.
The sound of a Wokka is unmistakable, but she never heard it. I was trying to strain to look south down 'Windermere but could see nothing until it appeared over her shoulder at about 500' tracking south to north up the lake.
I froze, she carried on & looked up to her right as the Wokka slowed & orbited our position with at least one crewman waving from the lowered ramp.
"What should we do?" she asked,
"Wave back I suppose" I replied.
The Wokka made a couple of orbits then continued north towards Carlisle. I don't know if it was an SHFNI Chinook & crew but if it was, thanks for giving us a giggle!!!
