Given the rain and the wind we were pleasantly surprised that ten walkers turned up on Sunday 20th November for an eleven-and-a-half mile walk.
Departing from the car park on the Henley Road we walked over the A404(M) bridge to join the butterfly trail and we made our way to Stubbing farm and Burchett's Green. Luck was with us as it stopped raining about twenty minutes into the walk.
We took a footpath through the agricultural college and were able to see the wallabies and the Emus, as well as the red Squirrels, unfortunately the Scottish Wild Cat was nowhere in sight, but in the distance, we could see what we believed to be an a Al Paka.
We made our way over farmland and emerged from high wood down the muddy steep slope from prospect hill to Hurley. We joined the Thames Path and walked towards Marlow crossing both Hurley and Temple Locks. We had our lunch stop in Higgins Park, and given the cold weather the cafe and toilets were very welcome.
The next leg of the walk took us over the bridge to Quarry Wood and over two roads on our way up winter hill. Walking through a small wood on the way to Coppice farm one of the leaders realised that she had dropped her gloves and headed back to retrieve them. Somehow, she managed to emerge from the woods ahead of the rest of the group right near the turkey farm, needless to say the gloves were not found.
The turkeys were particularly quiet today, perhaps due to the weather or just maybe they knew how near it was getting to Christmas!!!!
Leaving the farm, we headed towards and through Cookham common, 'no celebrity sighted today', as happened on a past walk. Bearing right onto Bix lane we kept Maidenhead thicket on our right, under the motorway to Robin Hood Arbour, with one more muddy path to walk before crossing back over the A404(M) to the car park where we started.
Thank you to Kathy and Ann for leading the walk, for writing it up and for providing the photos.
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