Bluebells in the Chilterns

Jane Rosoux reports on last Friday's circular walk in the Chilterns....

"A party of 11 of us set out from Wendover Station on another lovely day and although the bluebells had come out early this year and many were past their best Joe Garver led us through a succession of woods where the bluebells were still putting on a good display....



"And at the lunch stop at 'The White Lion', Buckland Common the picnickers enjoyed an impressive display of buttercups....





[Walk leader Joe Garver, above, in the yellow shirt, in conversation with Angela]



[Wild Garlic was in great profusion too]



[Nearing Wendover at the end of a great day]

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Princes Risborough circular

Yesterday nine of us joined June Craig for a brisk 12 mile walk around some fine Chiltern countryside.



[June is pictured above, extreme right.]

Despite a profusion of signposts June led us unerringly through fields and beech woods.





In the beech hangers wild garlic and native bluebells still carpeted the ground.



The lunchtime pub had a most unusual water feature in the duckpond...



Everyone had an enjoyable day. Well, almost everyone-



We got back to the station 5 minutes before our train. Sadly it wasn't the one we saw earlier in the afternoon, but you can't win 'em all....



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Wendover Circular Bluebell Walk

Despite Heavy overnight rain which continued into the morning, 13 people joined Joe Garver for a 13.5 mile walk in search of bluebells. Jane Rosoux sent us these photographs.



[Joe Garver is on the extreme right.]

The route was ingeniously planned and took in many bluebell woods...





By the end of the day, even the sun broke through!




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Spring Bluebells around Wendover

A stomach bug flattened me over the weekend, so on Sunday I missed one of the walks I had been looking forward to for months, Joe Garver leading a circular walk around Bluebell woods in the Chilterns.


Luckily Jane Rosoux went on the walk with her trusty camera. She wasn't alone, there were 48 other ramblers, led by the ever-popular Joe Garver. Joe lives in Wendover, and knows the area like the back of his hand.


This photo was taken early on in the walk. Joe is centre right, in the checked shirt.

With this many walkers, it is always sensible to appoint a backmarker. Joe had arranged for Peter, pictured below, to do the job on Sunday.


Have staff, will backmark!

At the beginning of the walk there were some very cute black (well, dark brown) sheep



But the real stars of the show were, of course, the Bluebell Woods, as these photos show...









The weather was perfect, dry warm and sunny



You can see why a backmarker is needed to keep an eye on the stragglers!



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