A walk with Ozil

On Sunday Ozil Baboon went for a walk in the countryside to the south west of the island.  He started in the beautiful village of Brighstone and climbed up into the woods at Grammars Common.  Being a baboon Ozil took advantage of the opportunity for swinging in trees.

OK enough showing off Ozil, we know you can swing upside down!!

On leaving the wood Ozil could see the way ahead.  This is the Mottistone valley leading to the longstone.

We walked down the valley, to the house you can see in the distance, where Ozil visited the famous longstone.  It is thought to be an ancient burial artifact.

After the longstone there was a long slow climb up above the valley.  Ozil stopped to look back over where he had been.

A lot more climbing and Ozil was at the top.  He was pleased to say it was down hill all the way from there.

The cliffs behind Ozil are at Freshwater Bay, where we walked on Friday!  They are a long way west of where Ozil is, but he is high up so you can see a long way.

After a long descent we got back to Brighstone, where Ozil enjoyed swinging on the sign for the little village museum.  He would have like to go in but its not open on Sundays.

There is also a little library.  Ozil climbed up to see what time that would be open, but no luck there either.

We did a walk on Monday as well, but we spent a lot of time climbing over stinging nettles and avoiding getting stung, so no pictures, but it was a pretty walk.  We will blog about today's walk tomorrow.