it was so hot yesterday we waited until it started to cool down before taking flynt on his walk.
one of our regular destinations is an area about a mile from home that covers areas known as horseshoe bottom, longslade view~where there is a bronze age bowl barrow (more of that another day as well as the rare conjoined disc barrows a bit closer to home)~and longslade bottom.
we parked at longslade bottom and followed the path under what was once the single railway track from brockenhurst to hamworthy in dorset~with the lovely name of 'castlemans corkscrew'
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flynt enjoyed the cool mud and water in Hincheslea Bog~needless to say it was bath time when we got back home and he lost his beloved tennis ball in the mud~a lot of poking with a stick could not locate it!
we were feeling brave~there are times when our individual health problem mean that we cannot always have a good long walk but some days we just need to stay out as it is so beautiful and despite the hill ahead of us the coolness of the woods were calling
the bracken was head and shoulder height in some places and had that special smell that it gives off in the heat
the darkish green band in the centre is the spread of the bog~the photo does not reflect how high we were~just a little higer and we would be able to see the isle of wight in the distance.
the edge of the woods which hide hincheslea estate, once one of several Saxon manors that once existed in this immediate area and mentioned in the domesday book~Hincelveslei,Brochelie and Broceste.
to this day there is still a big house hidden in the woods
we had to keep an eye on where we put our feet
not many people hike up the hill and deep into the woods and this makes it a special, peaceful place.
there is a stilness there that is hard to find these days
one of our regular destinations is an area about a mile from home that covers areas known as horseshoe bottom, longslade view~where there is a bronze age bowl barrow (more of that another day as well as the rare conjoined disc barrows a bit closer to home)~and longslade bottom.
we parked at longslade bottom and followed the path under what was once the single railway track from brockenhurst to hamworthy in dorset~with the lovely name of 'castlemans corkscrew'
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flynt enjoyed the cool mud and water in Hincheslea Bog~needless to say it was bath time when we got back home and he lost his beloved tennis ball in the mud~a lot of poking with a stick could not locate it!
we were feeling brave~there are times when our individual health problem mean that we cannot always have a good long walk but some days we just need to stay out as it is so beautiful and despite the hill ahead of us the coolness of the woods were calling
the bracken was head and shoulder height in some places and had that special smell that it gives off in the heat
the darkish green band in the centre is the spread of the bog~the photo does not reflect how high we were~just a little higer and we would be able to see the isle of wight in the distance.
the edge of the woods which hide hincheslea estate, once one of several Saxon manors that once existed in this immediate area and mentioned in the domesday book~Hincelveslei,Brochelie and Broceste.
to this day there is still a big house hidden in the woods
we had to keep an eye on where we put our feet
not many people hike up the hill and deep into the woods and this makes it a special, peaceful place.
there is a stilness there that is hard to find these days