Elvaston - The Country Park
w/e 07 June 2020
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
With the coronavirus restrictions in force we hadn't,
apart from a trip to a Garden Centre when they reopened a couple
of weeks ago, been far from home for about three months. With
the lockdown being eased a little more and parks being open we
decided on a change of scenery and went for a gentle wander at
Elvaston.
When we pulled onto the car park we found there were already
quite a number of vehicles there and when we left there were
even more but in the large area covered by Elvaston Castle Country
Park, all the visitors respected social distancing and there
was plenty of room for everyone.
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The children's play area by the car park was closed and to play
snakes and ladders or chess on the nearby picnic tables we would
would have needed to have taken the appropriate pieces with us.
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On the way to Elvaston my wife had commented that it had been
ages since we had been anywhere for a coffee so when we found
that a kiosk on the car park was open we thought it would be
rude to ignore it. The picnic tables were the ideal place to
sit and drink the coffee but we were glad that the crocodile
was only a carved log.
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We started our wander by following the path to the lake.
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On reaching the lake we turned right to walk along the north
east side.
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And this of course affords a good view across the lake of Elvaston
Castle.
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It's been a good years for Canada Geese offspring - there were
at least a dozen goslings here and more elsewhere.
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We continued to the head of the lake where a left turn took us
onto a bridge over the water where the lake narrowed.
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On the north side of the bridge we spotted three herons, one
on the tree branch, another where the branch entered the water
and a third further left near the water's edge.
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We carried on from the bridge between the rhododendron bushes
and along the other side of the lake.
Continued in Part 02
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