| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 26th August 2015 Wareham Forest Peter Peter, Clive, Ray, Rob 6 miles Sika Trail Car Park The Haymoor ★ ▲ |
It was not the best of days but we set off to Witchampton expecting the weather to improve. It didn't.
The rain was slight when we parked by the village hall but it steadily increased. We were very kindly invited in to the hall for a coffee and spent an hour or so sitting comfortably in the dry having coffee and biscuits while we watched the rain steadily get worse and worse.
Eventually we decided that even if it stopped the ground would be saturated so we headed off to Wareham Forest where we knew the paths would be reasonably dry. When we arrived the rain had stopped and although the clouds were still very grey the sun was doing its best to peep through.
We started along the outside of the boundary fence along paths which we had not used before and they were reasonably dry and pleasant. The walk was unplanned so we took whichever paths seemed likely to result in a reasonable walk of around 6 miles. Being able to keep track of the distance on MapFinder was a considerable help. The heather was coming along nicely and the rain had made all the colours really stand out particularly as the trunks of the trees looked almost black. We did not see any other people the whole way round just a small number of cows including some young calves.
It turned out to be a very enjoyable walk on decent dry paths with lots of water along the edges.
The rain was slight when we parked by the village hall but it steadily increased. We were very kindly invited in to the hall for a coffee and spent an hour or so sitting comfortably in the dry having coffee and biscuits while we watched the rain steadily get worse and worse.
Eventually we decided that even if it stopped the ground would be saturated so we headed off to Wareham Forest where we knew the paths would be reasonably dry. When we arrived the rain had stopped and although the clouds were still very grey the sun was doing its best to peep through.
We started along the outside of the boundary fence along paths which we had not used before and they were reasonably dry and pleasant. The walk was unplanned so we took whichever paths seemed likely to result in a reasonable walk of around 6 miles. Being able to keep track of the distance on MapFinder was a considerable help. The heather was coming along nicely and the rain had made all the colours really stand out particularly as the trunks of the trees looked almost black. We did not see any other people the whole way round just a small number of cows including some young calves.
It turned out to be a very enjoyable walk on decent dry paths with lots of water along the edges.
 Over the golf course |  Almost Autumn? |
 Time for Reflection |  Colours of the Heath |  Looking good |
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