Suffolk Coast and Heaths

[quarryquest]

This is AONB is what a lot of the coastal area near where I live is renowned for. Although garienos has his own little heathland growing by his garage where I was taking pictures of Fly Agaric yesterday, we thought we might go and visit some actual proper stuff in the sun today. There was a veritable fairy-fest of Fly Agaric in the oak woods on the edge of  Walberswick marshes.

First you walk through woodland:








Then it starts to get wetter:




The remains of an old drainage mill out on the marshes:




A skein of Canada Geese flew over us as we were standing looking at the view:







Conservation volunteers had created art with their tidying up of gorse:




Here's a closer look at one of the piles. Before central heating Heath inhabitants used furze (gorse) faggots in their baking ovens:



There were great numbers of Fly Agaric growing in the oak woods, but on the return journey we found this patch growing so I took photos:











We also met this beauty in the hedgerow on the side of the road while going back to the car:

Comments

[greenwitch]

Gorgeous photos! I downloaded the 6th to use as my desktop!

[dratinis]

Wow, this area is absolutely stunning!

[sid]

I've only read about gorse in books, and I had absolutely no idea what it looked like!

Toadstools kind of creep me out, but I think I'd rather see those beautifully colored ones than the plain brown type I find under the leaves I'm raking in the autumn!

[ainokallas]

Ooh, great photos! I especially like the old mill, looks interesting.

[turlough]

Absolutely beautiful photos!