I am running a bushcraft evening for our local Beaver group in just over a weeks time and so I went out with the pack leader Amber to check out the woods we would be using.
I took the kids with me as Alison is in London today and also took along a hammock to see if we could easily string a few up on the evening. Hammocks I thought was a good theme for the 30 Day Challenge.
After a good reccee of the site the kids found some clay blobsters the school children had made so they had fun playing with them. We also spotted a colony of ants with lots of flying ants among them (the pictures did not turn out well though).
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After tea we went for an evening bimble and spotted lots of small willowherbs and quite a few ripe wild strawberries.
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In keeping with the hammock theme I put up my small EDC hammock for Catherine and Finlay. This kept the kids happy while I wandered around looking for pictures. Finlay though could not help himself and was soon shimmying up a tree.
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While the kids were in the hammock or up trees I spotted these little critters. The one on the left was sitting on the tip of a small mullein leaf. There was a fight going on in the top right picture and the chap in the bottom right was just sunning himself.
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The beauty of the EDC hammock is that it has a zip – great for containing the kids when out and about 🙂
![Photo 18-06-2015 21 14 40](http://www.bushcraftdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Photo-18-06-2015-21-14-40.jpg)
It was soon time to go home but Finlay could not resist one more shimmy across the narrow ridge over the stream.
![Photo 18-06-2015 21 14 41](http://www.bushcraftdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Photo-18-06-2015-21-14-41.jpg)
Another successful Wild Day I think and who knows what tomorrow will bring (need to think of something fast).
Cheers
George