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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-10 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2020:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage, Wendy Peers, Celia de Mengle, Wendy and Ian Peers, Roger Smith, Paul Collinson, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Celia de Mengle, Sue Pearson.

Wednesday 3 April 2024

Thurstaston Common, Roydon Park, Stapledon Wood, Caldy and More 3rd April 2024

The Dungeon.
Inspecting the cave inn The Dungeon.
The waterfall inThe Dungeon.
View over ythe Dee Estuary from the path leading to Thursaston Church.
The first Bluebells seen today.
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.
The lake in Royden Park.
Our lunch spot in the Walled Garden at Royden Park.
More Bluebells in Royden Park.
The Wirral Way to Thursaston.
Primroses on the Wirral Way.
One of many information boards on the Wirral Way.
Looking northwards down the Wirral Way and Thursaston Staion platform.
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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