Cornwall - Day 2

Today we left our holiday cottage and drove to visit the Lost Gardens of Heligan. There are over 200 acres which are now a paradise for the explorer, wildlife, plant lover and garden romantic. Victorian gardens provide the café with homegrown vegetables and the pleasure gardens beckon, along with winding paths laid out over 200 years ago. The Jungle takes you on a sub-tropical journey through bamboo tunnels and under majestic tree ferns, giant rhubarb and banana trees. As well as playing host the UK’s only Burmese rope bridge, these Jungle is 5 degrees warmer than the rest of the gardens! You can wander around the estate and discover traditional and rare breeds, wildlife and ancient woodlands.

Cornwall - Day 1

This morning, we went on the 3 hour ocean discovery trip with Marine Discovery. We were lucky enough to see seals, common dolphins who came and played round the boat and lots of beautiful sea birds. We loved the boat; it is a sailing catamaran which allows fantastic views. You can sit on the trampoline net and see the dolphins underneath.

 The views from the boat of the coast was stunning too!

 In the afternoon, we walked to the stunning Nanjizal beach where we all went swimming! The water is so crystal clear.

30 days wild - Day 30 barefoot walk

P and I went for a walk around the lovely countryside in West Wickham whilst E was vaulting. We walked barefooted on the grass paths but it was so stony for us in the woodland bits. There were loads of birds singing and p picked up a couple of ladybirds too!

30 Days wild - Day 29 The Confetti Flower Field

Today E, P and I drove two and half hours to visit the Confetti Flower field in Pershore, Worcestershire. It is only open one week a year and so I decided it was worth the drive. The flowers were beautiful but it was very hot! We also enjoyed ice-cream and yummy cake! There was also a lack of insects which I found very odd!

30 days wild - day 23 Walk to Quy Fen

We parked in a carpark off the Clayhithe Road and walked down a bridleway with farmland on either side to Quy Fen. Quy Fen is grass land with some water bodies. It spans about 73 acres and is the remains of a much large area of common land between the villages of Horningsea, Quy and Fen Ditton. As was the custom since Saxon times where less arable land lay outside villages, it was shared by the villages and used for for cattle grazing, hay cutting, wood cutting and fen digging.lies to the east of the village and is open to public access, via footpaths and a track from the layby, just to the north of the village. The fen has a number of water filled pits which were excavated in the 19th century for coprolite, (dinosaur dung) and today act as host to a variety of wild life. There was lots of bird song, damsel flies and other insects!

30 days wild - day 22 Chalk pits

Today I went for a walk around the chalk pits. There are three distinct areas, two on the east side and one on the west side of Lime Kiln Road which I discovered for the first time this week. I loved hearing all the birds singing as they went to bed and there were a lot of moths and a couple of bats flying round as the sun set.

 

30 days Wild - day 19 Poppy field

On the way to riding there is a field which, at the moment, is covered with poppies. It looks stunning!