Kent is a county that’s never really featured very highly on my list of places to visit, but with my sister getting married there on Saturday it seemed like an ideal opportunity to at least give the place a chance. I’d heard good things from her about Oare Marshes so Read more…
I couldn’t finish off my Dorset series of posts without the promised look at the numerous in situ fossils that can be found along the Jurassic coast. Walking west from Lyme Regis you soon arrive at several large expanses of flat rock that are absolutely rammed full of fossil Ammonites. Read more…
For our third and final day in Dorset we actually hopped over the border to Devon for a walk along the River Coly. We did the same thing during our visit last year and were rewarded with sightings of nesting Kingfishers and Sand Martins. With Easter being a few weeks Read more…
On Saturday we woke early and by nine were already parked up in the small coastal village of Seatown in preparation for the days walk. Our destination was to be the top of Golden Cap, the tallest point on the south coast of England at 191 metres and a landmark Read more…
Plummeting temperatures and the end of a fortnights glorious sunshine coincided perfectly last week with our first camping trip of the year. Our destination for the long Easter weekend was to be Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a location famed worldwide for its fossil giving cliffs and spectacular scenery. Read more…
On Tuesday we made the trip across the border to the WWT’s flagship Slimbridge reserve. After driving through biblical hail storms it was a welcome relief to arrive in glorious sunshine, accompanied of course by the usual drop in temperature that seems to plague every one of our visits there. Read more…
I find Red Grouse to be fascinating creatures. I saw my first one last year and spent the rest of that day running around the moors in what seemed like increasingly futile attempts at getting a decent photograph. Being a game bird they are incredibly wary of people which meant Read more…
Ignore the rather over excited title to this blog post for now as I have plenty of other goodies to share before we get to the main event. Last week I found myself traveling back to the Midlands to attend to some family business. By Friday afternoon all was taken Read more…