Saturday Apr 26th, 2008: 10.5 miles, approx 200m ascent (Map: OS Explorer 149)
I spent the weekend in Kent with some excellent chums (you know who you are...). Among the many treats planned for the weekend was a walk with the excellent WWINK group, perfectly timed to see the bluebells in full, spectacular flower.
This is only a brief description of the walk as Claire from WWINK has written a really good entry about the walk on her blog at http://wwink.blogspot.com/.
The walk started and finished in the village of Selling, a few miles south of Faversham. Sixteen of us, led by Jayne and Mary set off from Selling under a sunny sky.
Heading south towards Perry Wood we were soon spotting our first bluebells by the footpath, and watching lambs playing in the fields. We made our way through Perry Wood, where the woodland floor was a sea of shimmering blue, and up to the wooden pulpit tower on top of the Mount, where we were reunited with a few lost stragglers.
After admiring the view from the Mount, we continued south-ish to Shottenden, passing more lambs and some llamas on the way. From Shottenden we made our way further south and into King's Wood.
Again, the bluebells were spectacular, with scattered wood anenomes, and occasional clusters of primroses by the North Downs Way. We stopped in a sunny spot in King's Wood for our lunch break, relaxing in the warm sun.
After lunch we went northwest to Molash, continuing in the same direction across the fields back to Perry Wood and more bluebells. Leaving the wood near the Rose and Crown pub we made our way back to Selling and the White Lion pub, to say goodbye to WWINK member Suz who is off on an adventure to New Zealand. A great way to end a wonderful walk.
The spring wild flowers this year are wonderful, so get out and look at them!
Thanks to El for the photos.
03/05/08 @ 16:29