Earlier this week I took my 7 year old son out to allow his mother to work at home. A lovely few hours walking wherever the feeling took us without a map too. There's a parking space orb three in this hill near a junction. You can get through the wall in a few spots and a gate near the road junction. From there we walked up the hill following the wall until it swung off to the left. We spent the first 20 minutes identifying trees using an ID book. Not a very user friendly one but he got the ID right eventually.
Then we followed our dog along one path leading to another and another. No use of maps. Eventually we got back to the road and walked up that's the van. On the way we had to stop because up ahead a weasel kept poking it's head out from the vegetation by the road to take a look at us. It wanted to cross but kept checking us out at least three times. Then it just ran straight across without looking. A bit further on we thought we saw another. Then over a high wall I spotted a fallow deer very close to us.
Three spots if which two were really close encounters. It's the first weasel and fallow deer he's seen so he was stoked! He now wants to go out like that again, without a planned route to see where we can get to and what we can see. It's amazing what close encounter with nature can do.
Then we followed our dog along one path leading to another and another. No use of maps. Eventually we got back to the road and walked up that's the van. On the way we had to stop because up ahead a weasel kept poking it's head out from the vegetation by the road to take a look at us. It wanted to cross but kept checking us out at least three times. Then it just ran straight across without looking. A bit further on we thought we saw another. Then over a high wall I spotted a fallow deer very close to us.
Three spots if which two were really close encounters. It's the first weasel and fallow deer he's seen so he was stoked! He now wants to go out like that again, without a planned route to see where we can get to and what we can see. It's amazing what close encounter with nature can do.