The sun was out today as we paid a visit to the Blue Pool Nature Reserve in Wareham, Dorset, UK. After paying the £7.50 entrance fee we set off on a circular walk. After all the rain we had during the night, it was surprisingly quite dry under foot.
The actual pool used to be an old clay pit that has now been filled in. It isn't always blue, either. According to their website, the changing colours of the pool are due to light diffraction from the particles in the clay. When the sun hits the pool, the particles in the clay scatter the light in different ways, which then creates the blue colours (or green). Unfortunately, today it was neither. It still looked lovely though, whatever the colour.
I had the opportunity to try out the UK's longest suspended rope bridge, apparently, which is 50 metres long and 10 metres high. I'll admit, I'm not the biggest fan of heights, but I decided to give it a go. As I stepped further onto the bridge, it became a bit wobbly in parts, but I managed to get to the other side.
We came across an interesting sculpture of a dragonfly by Ted Edley. It looked really good against the blue sky.
In the forest, there was a children's play area. I suspect adults can also have a go when nobody was looking. After all, why should children have all the fun?
Even though I was tempted, I decided to give them a miss. I didn’t want to go home with any broken bones.
I settled on the more sedate task of looking for fairies and their fairy houses.
Overall, it was a lovely place to walk around. It was a shame that dogs had to be kept on a lead as we didn't come across many other people, but it was understandable.
Very special reserve with big pool and lots of big old trees. So wonderful to be walking in such a nature reserve.
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I used to love close to Wareham - a ten minute drive. We taught at the purbeck school there too Great market on a Saturday. Many happy memories of the area but never went here. How long has it been going? It would be unlike us to pay to get in anyway so maybe that's it.
It was established in 1935 apparently. I don’t like paying for anything either. I've got to that age where I was looking forward to concessionary fees, but they didn't have any here. I wasn't impressed. 😁
I drove past the turning for it back in September and my parents highly rate it but didn’t have the time as I needed to be somewhere. Looks great, thanks for posting - will visit as soon as I can.
I miss the woods and forests of Derbyshire, so it was right up my street. 🙂
I bet it was
the lake, the wet ground, the dry grass, it was a very beautiful view. I felt like the place brought us to a very quiet, magical place, like life without problems.
Thank you @isdarmady.