Fungle and Firmounth Roads
Mar 31st, 2010 by Stace
Described as an ‘undemanding journey’ in the book, we chose this hike because our friend Gordon said he was out of practice with walking. The reality of the instruction ‘ascend 400m up heathery slopes’ didn’t dawn on us until we were in it. Admittedly, it was more annoying than demanding, as the heather bushes came up over my knees, which did make the going kinda tough. Also, we thought the snow would’ve melted on the hills by now, but it hasn’t (will be even worse now due to this week’s snowy gale force windy sleety chaos). Wildlife count for the day included rabbits, sheep, cows, toads making love, frogspawn (toadspawn?), buzzards, oystercatchers, lapwings doing a funky sky dance complete with calls, an adder, a few roe deer, mountain hare in its winter coat, male and female grouse, two black grouse.
Of course we had to nab at least one cache on our way out to the hike, so we nabbed the micro at Feugh Falls, and we had a DNF for a funky letterbox hybrid next to an ostrich farm. We had a lovely early dinner at the Potarch on our way home, and then it was time for bed!
You guys are into geocaching too, hey? I’m not so good at it; every time I play with Kristy and Gerrod I just aim to stay as close as I can to Kristy. That way when she finds it I can just push her our of the way and be the winner. And yet, this plan has never quite come to fruition.