I am running a bushcraft evening for our local Beaver group in just over a weeks time and so I went out with the pack leader Amber to check out the woods we would be using.
I took the kids with me as Alison is in London today and also took along a hammock to see if we could easily string a few up on the evening. Hammocks I thought was a good theme for the 30 Day Challenge.
After a good reccee of the site the kids found some clay blobsters the school children had made so they had fun playing with them. We also spotted a colony of ants with lots of flying ants among them (the pictures did not turn out well though).
After tea we went for an evening bimble and spotted lots of small willowherbs and quite a few ripe wild strawberries.
In keeping with the hammock theme I put up my small EDC hammock for Catherine and Finlay. This kept the kids happy while I wandered around looking for pictures. Finlay though could not help himself and was soon shimmying up a tree.
While the kids were in the hammock or up trees I spotted these little critters. The one on the left was sitting on the tip of a small mullein leaf. There was a fight going on in the top right picture and the chap in the bottom right was just sunning himself.
The beauty of the EDC hammock is that it has a zip – great for containing the kids when out and about 🙂
It was soon time to go home but Finlay could not resist one more shimmy across the narrow ridge over the stream.
Another successful Wild Day I think and who knows what tomorrow will bring (need to think of something fast).
Cheers
George