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BB2607 : Haiku
Hikes
Wednesday
11th March 2026
Mike
B was Billy Nomates last week but that didn't
stop him getting out.
Here is his
remarkable report- a BOOTboys
first, written as a “haiku”.
Very
classy.
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Levens
mist at dawn
Deer stir by Dallam Tower
Words
spark on lone path
In
case, like me, you did not know:
A
Haiku poem
Structure that comes from
Japan
Fifteen syllables
To
be technical:
The
first line has five
The second line has
seven
The third, five again
This
week, Mike had more luck. He had Tony
and me for company. Our target was
Walney Island to see if we could see any
seals. Or to put it another way:
Long
drive to Walney
Short walk to look for
the seals
Ferry
Hotel lunch
For
once the Sat Nav let us down. We asked
it to take us to the Walney Island Nature
Reserve but it headed us off north towards the airport. We hadn't realised
there was a North Walney Nature Reserve.
It was the South one that we wanted.
Navigation duly amended.
It
was a clear sunny day though with a bitterly
cold wind. The Furness coastline
was clear, with a good view of Vickers.....
.....
and of Piel Island.
This will hopefully be the subject
of a summer report as, weather permitting,
we will be wading across the channels to
it and, who knows, maybe a lock-in in its
pub.
After
passing the oyster farm.....
..... and then the lighthouse,
we found the vantage point from which to
spot the seals.
Or were they rocks?
Basking in the sun (them, not us)
there was no movement from whichever and
the distance was too great to be certain.
However they were where we were told
they would be so they must have been seals
mustn't they?
We
returned mostly along the beach, braving
the sand storm that the wind was kicking
up. I had my buff over my face but
I was wishing I had brought my keffiyeh
(though that might have been a dangerous
item of clothing so close to the nuclear
submarine base). We were soon back
at the car then off for lunch.
Ferry
Inn scampi
Carvery if you prefer
Then
Docks Museum
Over
the Jubilee Bridge on Barrow Island is the
Docks Museum. A revelation.
Free
to entry, it features a well displayed history
of the area, particularly of submarines
and ships built in Barrow and the trials
the town had to endure during WWII.
There
was one attraction that was especially amusing.
You stood on a designated spot and
were then inserted into old photographs
projected onto a large screen.
Then
time to go home
A most interesting day
Do
it again soon?
Don,
Wednesday 11th February
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