Lions & Tigers & Bears, oh my!

Pantiles

Wowee, what an amazing walk- it was brilliant! Marion turned up at my place with a mystery walk planned in her head, & we headed off towards the same route we've done for the past two walks. However, this time we diverted off to the left, over the boardwalk across the marshes, up our first incline (note I didn't say 'hill'!) towards this fabulous old house called Pantiles with some sort of bird of prey statues on the gateways, and then she headed left towards an old farm. I stumbled along behind wondering where on earth she was taking us, as she opened a gate into a field and headed towards a fence bordering a wood. As instructed, I peered in between the trees and lo & behold…there were some llamas, 8 of them, peeking out from behind the trees watching us.

Llamas

Single llama

It was astonishing to see them in the woods, a very unusual place- especially round here.

Photos duly taken and we headed back towards the farm sheds and heard voices, and there to our delight….were…..some lambs! the most cute, adorable fluffy little things sniffing around and falling over the ewe who was on her back having a pedicure. It was fantastic! We were welcomed with open arms by the farmer and the lady looking after the sheep (never found out her name) and invited to hold one of the lambs- I was in heaven!! The little cutie is called Moritz and is only two weeks old and LOVED being hugged. I nearly took him home with me. And even better, we got to carry him down to the field with the rest of the flock because he didn't want to walk. The flock consisted of three ewes, and eight lambs and they were fabulous! It was with extreme reluctance that we left to continue our walk- I could have stayed there all day playing.

Time for a pedicure

Lambs clambering over mum

Moritz

The walk continued up another incline, along various fields, through Aldringham church churchyard (! not sure how best to phrase that), past the old almshouses, more fields- in the mist this time so that everything had disappeared when we turned round- through a foresty bit and then back onto the old railway tracks heading back to my place. I was still skipping with joy after befriending Moritz and wanted to show the world the photos. This may become a regular walk!

Stats for the day? Well, I turned off the pedometer by mistake at one point (I was looking for the altitude bit (hah! that's a laugh considering I live by the sea!) but we both reckoned it was about 5 miles. no idea of the rest, except it took about 2 hours.