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: