Foggy Walk On The Quantock Hills

I was lucky enough to be brought up just 10 minutes from the Quantock Hills an area of AONB, as a young child it’s where I spent many hours with my Parents, Sisters and Brother walking, playing and building dens. As a teenage I spent lots of time within the Cubs and Scouts Groups exploring and camping on the Quantocks but as an adult I drifted away from visiting the Quantocks to visit places further afield (in the UK and Aboard) even though I still lived relatively close for most of this time. Things changed in March 2020 when we went in to Lockdown here in the UK, being restricted to local exercise we soon exhausted the local parks and on gentle relaxing of rules were looking for somewhere else local to visit its then the Quantock Hill sprang to mind. Since then I along with my family have spent many hours revisiting old paths and discovering new one all over the Quantocks. 

Last weekend we met my Sister and her family at Staple Plain for a walk retracing some of the paths we walked as children, through the woodland and along the Valley floor all in thick fog.

As ever I packed my camera (with single lens 24mm-105mm) just in case there was a chance to grab a few foggy snaps which I was lucky enough to do much to my five year old nephews dismay (Uncle T why are you taking pictures of old trees in fog he asked a number of times).

Below are a few of the snaps I managed to take throughout our walk.

For more information about the Quantock Hills visit: https://www.quantockhills.com