We had a long break due to me being away on courses, and our
return was out of the usual sequence, which might have cost
us a few members. As it was, only two explorers turned up,
Fern and Rowan, but we had four helpers, Claire, Elizabeth,
Philippa and Sharon, and two dogs, Ellie and Honey getting
her paw in for the first time.
We started at Kinacara where everyone admired the fine leaded
windows before walking along the road and looking at the old
mill house. From there is was quick walk in the sunshine to
the Tramp's Cave, where everyone heard about the tramp who
used to live in it and Rowan got himself good and wet in water
dripping from the rocks.
A few yards further on we started up the old track, with our
two young explorers setting a good pace up the hill. As we
walked along the path we found much of interest, I was showing
off my new knowledge of mosses and lichens and Rowan successfully
identified a tree that had been struck by lightning. Ellie
grabbed a few sticks and Honey pretended to fetch her ball
but kept losing it.
We stopped for our wafer break on a fine recessed platform
below the path; it had probably been used for charcoal burning
in the eighteenth century but I couldn't find any charcoal.
Then we carried on in the sunshine, seeing the goats below
us on the hill and hearing curlews on the sands. At the end
of the path we climbed up to the old Dun and had a few minutes
to admire the view before it started to rain and we left for
lower ground.
We came back along the road but it turned out to be an interesting
journey with two seals swimming quite close to us and several
herons feeding on the shore.
John
Dye
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