A bit quiet on the gardening front at the moment, so decided to share our other outdoor activities.
Over the past few days we've been to various parts of the New Forest for our walks and Geocaching hobby.
Particularly around the areas of
King's Hat and
Rans Wood in Beaulieu and
Acres Down in Lyndhurst, we've heard several Cuckoos calling for mates. We've not seen any, just heard them. When we were at
King's Hat we heard the calls either side of us at the same time, so we knew there were at least two of them calling to each other.
No doubt getting ready to pair up and steal another birds' nest to have their young raised by unsuspecting surrogates.
Carpets of Bluebells are a wonderful sight to behold, spread throughout the whole of the Forest at the moment.
Today has been an exceptionally hot day - 22 deg. C. A bit of a breeze but sunny and dry all day. Thank goodness for air-con in the car, we'd have been melting otherwise. Our little Yorkie comes along with us to help us find the 'cache stashes'. She's like the energiser bunny - for such a small dog you would think she'd tire easily, but noooooooo! Kathy and I are flagging first and yet she just keeps going, and going, and going ..........
We've just hidden our first two geocaches in the area. They are near to a couple of very quaint and beautiful churches, commonly referred to as "
Church Micros". Although not actually hidden within the church grounds itself, they get that name because of the close proximity of where you hide your cache. We created a few puzzles that had to be solved to get the final coordinates to enter into their handheld GPS receivers, guiding them to the hidden cache.
They were published on the geocaching.com web site for people to find and so far we've had some great feedback from people who have found them already, and enjoyed the challenges.
As Kathy's feet problem is so much better now, we're getting out for walks every day. Keeping fit and enjoying our beautiful area.
Laurie.
