Blackland Lakes (Sunday 12th June 2022)

Back in 1989 a young mother who lived next door was recommending to me Blackland Lakes, a camping, fishing and leisure resort a couple of miles away that she regularly attended with her children.

I investigated but found that there was a kiosk at the road entrance where visitors had to provide their booking arrangements on arrival for security. I have visited the Blackland village, stables,  old mill race and footpaths a few times over subsequent years, including an Open Day visit in 2010 to a working mill that might date from the 13th century, and a church where David Hemmings was buried.

Now, a mere thirty-three years later, I have visited Blackland Lakes itself. I reached it circuitously via several public rights of way, one of which was signed as to Blackland Lakes, and this led me directly inside the premises, apparently intentionally.

At this point all waymarks and directions ceased and I seemed to be at liberty to wander wherever I liked. There are several lakes, some prioritised for fishing and one as a nature reserve, and it was here that I found this never-ending procession of the ubiquitous Canada goose, complete with goslings and juveniles.

Leaving wasn't quite so easy and without any signs or waymarks I ended up on an unofficial path and had to clamber over logs, branches and undergrowth to reach the road I was parked on.

L.
Monday 13.6.2022 (1332 hr)

Blip #3682 (#3432 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #119/265 + #049/100 Extras
Day #4463 (1036 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2825 (#2665 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

Calne series
Geese series
Blackland series

A Walk At Blackland Lakes, 12 June 2022 (Flickr album of 17 photos)

One year ago:
The Woodland Garden

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Noori & His Dorpa Band — Al Amal (2022)
From the current edition of the Blues Show (Radio Two).
"The first single from our upcoming record Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast by Noori & His Dorpa Band."
A soundtrack of Sudan's revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture.
Electric soul, blues, jazz, rock, surf are all grounded by hypnotic Sudanese grooves, Naji's impeccable, haunting tenor sax, and of course, Noori's tambo-guitar, a self-made unique hybrid of an electric guitar and an electric tambour, a four-string instrument found across East Africa.
A truly ancient community, Beja trace their ancestry back millennia. Some say they are among the living descendants of Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush. Beja melodies—nostalgic, hopeful and sweet, ambiguous and honest—are thousands of years old.
The Beja community has been on the forefront of political change in Sudan for decades because successive Sudanese governments have turned a blind eye to their calls for recognition and access to the gold wealth of their own soil. Noori believes an unleashing of Beja music would form the most potent act of resistance in their quest for equity and justice. -  Ostinato Records, You Tube