The Wednesday Walk 8th June 2011

Today’s write-up is courtesy of Trudy H

The Plan

A walk from Cranborne

The Leader

Trudy B

Who Turned Up

Trudy B, Trudy H, Sue and Ros

The Walk

We started today’s walk at Cranborne.  Catching a glimpse of the poppy fields we decided to save them till last as we would come past them on the way back.  As we were walking towards Shack Hedge Corner, we admired the glorious fields of barley, moving gently in the wind.  Suddenly the heavens opened and by the time we put on our coats, we were thoroughly wet. It soon stopped raining and we were drying off in the sun again.  As we arrived at Waterlake Bottom, we were greeted by a vast amount of cows with their calves. As they were staring at us, we were quite relieved to see a fence separating us from them, only to discover that a little further on there was absolutely nothing stopping them entering our field.  We hurriedly negotiated our way around the numerous cow pats, when it started raining again.  Luckily we hadn’t put our coats away and this time managed to put them on before getting wet. We marched on determinately and soon the sun was smiling again. As we arrived at the village we had to run to the Sheaf of Arrows before the next downpour. There we enjoyed a well deserved lunch which was very tasty (except Trudy’s potatoes were cold).  Finally we started our last stage of the walk which led us to the poppy fields.  When we arrived we saw three hares running in all directions.  What a view though, a sea of red greeted us, it was magnificent.  After taking plenty of photographs, we carried on and eventually reached the car.  A long and tiring but very enjoyable walk.