Great Shacklow Woods to Deep Dale

Just 2 of us today. myself and Ike the other 2 were unavailable. Ike's turn to drive and after a quick conflab we decided to go to Great Shacklow Woods and see if the wild Garlic is in flower yet. We set off at 06:00 and parked up in the lay by opposite the old Bone Mill. We crossed the road and walked down to the footbridge to cross the river Wye and had a look at the old bone mill. Very unusual mill having 2 wheels one at each end of the building. We carried on up a steep incline through Great Shacklow Woods passing huge amounts of wild garlic plants still not in full flower. The track eventually levelled out then started to go down. Again there were lots of wild flowers, some common but some i haven't seen before. We came down into Deep Dale and then onto the A6 where we walked along the road back towards the car. We stopped at a bridge to have our breakfast then carried on to the car. Just as we were getting our boots off a Kestrel made an appearance and landed in a tree a couple of hundred yards away.

Great Shacklow Woods

The old bone mil

Wild Garlic plant

Magpie mine sough into the river Wye

Wild Garlic

Wild Garlic in the woods

Bluebells

don't know what this plant is

Isn't nature just wonderful

Ike coming down the sloping hillside

Ike

Track into Deep Dale

Ike seeing light at the end of the tunnel

Ike

Kestrel

Flying Scotsman passing through Belper station

Just the 2 of us and we had a great little walk, took our time and only covered about 2 1/2 miles but what a lovely walk through the woods. We climbed way above the A^ and river Wye then had to come back down again lol. To top it off there was excitement in Belper today when the Flying Scotsman came through, i know Geoff would have liked to have seen it so I've put it on here.

See you next week.