Has the latest well-publicized photograph (above) of Lake Windermere’s Bownessie or Bowness Monster been solved?

Is it to be explained by an old tried and true but tired tale of misidentification?

Bownessie Photographers: Sarah Harrington and Tom Pickles.

Was what was captured photographically only a row of split tires (or “tyres” in the UK)? (See below.)

Compare to:

Last week a family found something by the lake which casts suspicions on the existence of the beast – a large tyre cut open which when floating on water looks rather like the four-humped creature.

‘We were walking in the area where the picture was taken and suddenly saw this tyre cut open lying on the footpath. I thought, “This looks like the creature,” ’ said John Phillips, 46, who was at Windermere for the half-term break with wife Liz and their three daughters.

Mr Phillips, of Solihull, West Midlands, threw the tyre into the water and said he was stunned by the resemblance to the photo.

‘If you looked at this tyre floating from a distance, it did look a Nessie-like creature,’ he said.

‘But in the original picture there was a wave of water behind the creature, which suggested it was moving at speed. I think it was being pulled with a rope by a person or a boat. I don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun, but maybe this tyre is the Bowness Monster.’Daily Mail

Ah, so misidentification, yes, with a hint of human intervention. That equals hoax.