The Wednesday Walk 12th August 2009

The plan
With so many people away on holiday, Wendy is anxious to find someone to walk with her this week. If you are free, please call Wendy and arrange a meeting place.

The Leader
A joint effort

Who Turned Up
Trudy, Wendy, and...

The Walk
(Courtesy ofTrudy)
It was rather a lazy day, starting off at the tennis courts at Branksome. We didn't see many flowers along the way. We did however see a perfectly good bike in the stream (I think that's a meant to be a bike and not a pike - blogmaster) At Branksome Chine, Wendy spotted two wardens and told them about the bike and they said they would send a van to sort it. (Must be a bike unless they wanted a fish supper - blogmaster)
After a very good, though expensive coffee - you pay forthe view here - on the terrace, we made our way along the beach to Canford Cliffs. We had an excellent lunch in the New Beehive. The ambience was good and the staff very friendly and attentive.
Afterwards, we walked to Flaghead Chine, back along the beach and a different way up Branksome Chine. At the top we went to see if the bike had been removed. It had been taken from the stream but we discovered it on the other side leaning against some bushes. We wondered why we bopthered. Wendy suggested we send Lew to rescue it.
The pictures show us hugging a fossilised tree. Wendy reckoned it is 1.5 million years old, or 15 million. Anyway, it is very old. (Note - we now understand it to be 140 million years old, so it should have a bus pass!)

The Pub
The New Beehive, Canford Cliffs.