The Dungeon.
View over ythe Dee Estuary from the path leading to Thursaston Church.
Thursaston Church.
At the trig point on Thuraston Common.
View from the toposcope on Thursaston Common, looking towards the Dee Eastuary.
Flowering Gorse on At the on Thuraston Common.
More Bluebells in Royden Park.
Walk Stats:
Distance: 7.9 miles. Climb: 594’ (Possibly wind assisted GPS reading).
Time: 4 hours 9 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.5 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.9 m.p.h.
Temperature: 9.5 Celsius at the end of the walk. 13.7 Celsius Mid-afternoon.
Beaufort Wind Force: 4, a Moderate breeze as we approached the shore at Caldy (enough to turn my umbrella inside out!)
Group: Martyn, Ed, Nigel and Fran.
The weather forecast today meant we were expecting brief showers, mainly in the morning and sunny spells in the afternoon.
It was pretty well what we got, but the longest shower came in the afternoon.
Distant views over the Dee Estuary weren’t brilliant, but North Wales seemed to be getting more rain than us.
One member of the group managed to slip over on the way to The Dungeon, but recovered enough to explore the cave in The Dungeon.
Lunch was taken in the Walled Garden, where we were grateful to sit under cover in the gazebo as it started to rain.
It was good to see quite a lot of wild flowers coming into flower as well as the continuous bird song that accompanied us the walk.
Birds seen or heard today included: Carrion crow, European robin, Common blackbird, Blue tit, Common chaffinch, Wood nuthatch, House sparrow, Song thrush, Common chaffinch, Mallard, Moorhen, Winter wren, Great tit, Collared dove, Grey heron, Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, Woodpigeon and Skylark.
Overall a very enjoyable walk, celebrated with a visit to the Wheatsheaf at Raby.
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