We are having two sunny days out of three for the August Bank holiday weekend, a record matched only by England's fine Ashes win yesterday over the Ozzies. We decided to have a longish day out to explore the wilderness knows as Hankley and Thursley Commons. The first of these is a MoD area of swooping heather-clad scenery and distant views (see landscape pictures)and the other is a mainly boggy area with board walks and the widest variety of dragon flies in Britain. It was a beautiful walk of about 5 miles; we helped a woman and daughter who were lost; and when we arrived at the end the pub had a much needed and classy bowl of ham and pea broth. We then wandered round the (interesting) village including a church dating back to 1030, when it was under the control of the then Pope. Unfortunately the batteries of my newly repaired camera failed at this point and, unusually, I did not have charged spares with me.
Hope you like the photos.
2 comments:
It's good to see all that heather, although it's rather barren. Nice little boardwalk. They're sadly uncommon in England - but there's tons here in the parks and nature reserves
As you know Surrey has much greenery with many trees and so it is nice to have this sort of countryside as a change.
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