It is one of the docking points of Windermere Lake Cruises and also at one end of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.

Captive breeding and research of the endangered White Clawed Crayfish constitute the conservation project for this area.

It discusses the importance of not releasing animals from the pet trade, such as the terrapins, which can now be found surviving in the wild.

Bream, Perch, Golden orfe, Koi carp, Eurasian harvest mouse, Common toad, Red-eared terrapins.

beadlet anemone, butterfish, common hermit crab, common starfish, common sunstar, Connemara clingfish, goby, blenny, cushion starfish, cuckoo wrasse, dahlia anemone, snakelock anemone, peacock worms, lumpsuckers, spiny starfishEuropean plaice, purple sunstar, big bellied seahorse Seabass, pollock, turbot, lesser spotted catashark, greater spotted cat shark, thornback ray, wrasse The Virtual Diving bell incorporates images of underwater scenes displayed on three two metre diameter semi-spherical CG graphics screens.