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She said the animal is likely to have been kept at a pet, ending up in the tarn when owners struggled to keep up with its care demands or decided they did not want it.

An invasive alligator snapping turtle has been pulled from a Cumbrian tarn.

After an additional 2,000 feet of elevation, you’ll reach your destination: meadows with tarns and a view of Glacier Peak.

The Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the chunk of national forest in the Central Cascades where you’ll find these shimmering aquatic delights, lives up to its name with more than 700 lakes, ponds and tarns.

The area where the afternoon tea was found on Monday, between Great Langdale and Little Langdale, is considered one of the most spectacular of the many Lakeland tarns.