Trip to Slimbridge

 

 

For those that follow my blog over the past few year's will know that I often visit WWT Slimbridge.  To be honest I have lost count of the amount of year's I have been going and do my best to go every couple of months.

 

Why when there are so many places within just the Cotswolds that I live, a place where thousands of people come to, would I want to visit the same place so often.

 

To me Slimbridge is not only a short drive from home, but a place you can escape and be in nature.  I live in a "typical" housing estate where the houses could be the same anywhere in the country and am overlooked in my garden from every angle.  I am slowly developing the garden to be more enclosed, but you can not escape the urban environment.

 

However Slimbridge you can just go and sit and be surrounded by nature.  Along with knitting, my other passion is photography and I can just sit for ages just watching birds and nature, enjoy the changing light and the peace of the site.

 

There are nine wetland sites spread throughout the UK and I have now visited eight of them.  But to me Slimbridge is hands down my favourite.

 

Over the past year I have watched the developement of a new area that used to be home to Flamingo's outside the coffee shop, it is now an oasis not just for wildlife but a collection of a huge variety of flora and fauna.

During the summer months you can walk down along a path that runs parallel to the Seven Esturary, it is such a great place to just go and watch the river eb and flow.  

Alongside the site the area is also farmed and I just loved watching this cow quietly chewing away. 

I sat by the river which is the second highest tidal river in the country for what turned out to be an hour!  When I first sat down you could see the sandbanks on the river, by the time I got up to leave the water had covered them and the river had rapidly filled up.

So if your ever near Slimbridge do call in, you won't be disappointed.