Brave deer

Dried up stream

Stragglers

August walk

Eighteen of us including a U3A visitor turned up on this warm and pleasant summer’s morning at Brock Hill Car Park just off Ornamental Drive from the Lyndhurst to Christchurch cross roads. Ornamental drive is renowned for the many rhododendron bushes (A lot have recently been cleared) and giant redwood trees the tallest trees in the Forest and probably in the UK. The mainly earth paths were dry from the lack of rain and we completed the walk in one of our fastest times. During the walk we came across two young deer who took little notice of us giving a good photo opportunity. The photo of the stream show the dryness of the forest as just before the ford there was a notice warning of the danger of flooding

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