Great Haywood Marina

This is the view from the stern of Solace.  It is looking down the marina as we leave her until next time.  The last mornings are always a bit hectic, all our gear to load into the Land Rover parked behind the brown building to the right of the shot, so a number of trips along the pontoons with a trolly.  The making sure everything is left as we would wish to find it ready for the next crew.

So we had a trouble free run up the M6, arrived home, and quickly unpacked the Land Rover.  Then after a short rest and a meal we were off out to a talk at the local support group for the Cumbria Wildlife Trust in the form of a report on the progress of the "Get Cumbria Buzzing" project.  It also served as a timely reminder of the importance of reporting sightings of anything.  If even common things aren't reported we don't know if they are reducing in numbers having nothing to compare to.

A little story might illustrate this.  When the Eycott Hill reserve opened there were a lot of "Recording Sessions".  Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre always had somebody there. I attended one of these session as we were having a break the girl from CWT said to the man from CBDC we found another plant species the other day.  The reply "oh good, what was it".  He was told, "you are standing under it".   Nobody had thought to record the 6 or 7 m high Ash tree.