Abooo out walking

 Last Monday was a bank holiday in England and another very nice day, so we went for a walk and Abooo wanted to show off his t-shirt so he was photographed.  We went to Wooton, which is very close to Ryde to walk in some woods.

The first people Abooo met made him a little envious, they were so high up and seemed to have such a relaxing time, watching the sky, they were too high up even for Abooo to climb up and join them.

They seem to be living the dream!

Abooo was mainly interesting in climbing trees and swinging so in the woods that was not difficult to arrange.

He also met some sheep and goats on the walk and stopped for a chat.  He hung onto the fence post very tightly in case any of the goats decided he looked eatable.

There were really too busy eating grass to worry too much about Abooo!!

There were some nice flowers that Abooo stopped to play in along the way.

He almost seems to be swimming in them.

On the way back we found a stall selling tomato plants and Abooo stopped for a look, but didn't buy.

The walk was near home so we didn't have lunch out this time, so no food pictures, but Abooo will have a lunch out soon.

Freshwater to Yarmouth and back.

 It was a lovely sunny weekend so we decided that it was worth travelling across the island for a sunny walk.

First let me introduce our model for this outing.  You may think this is Harry our normal out and about baboon, but you would be wrong, this is Bukayo who recently arrived at Baboon HQ with his bigger brother Kanu, who somewhat resembles Archie.  Kanu and Bukayo came to Baboon HQ through TourGuideTed who rehomed them to us.  They are settling in well.

So this is Bukayo.

You may well wonder how we can tell the difference between him and Harry.

Well it is not as difficult as you would think.

Harry is pink where Bukayo is yellow.  Need we say more!!

So Bukayo started walking from The End of the Line cafe at Freshwater.

He is a baboon so he stopped to do some tree climbing in the wooded bits.

When Yarmouth came in site he stopped to see where he was going, well actually to pose on a way marker, but there is Yarmouth in the background.

He also looked back at where he had been.

There were a lot of these little blue flowers and Bukayo stopped to play in them for a while.

Of course baboon walks end at cafes now they are open again and we went back to The End of the Line.  Although it was lunchtime it is very hard to resist their scones so we had a cheese one each for lunch and a fruit on each for pudding, seems fair!

Another search for bluebells

 Last time we didn't have much luck looking for bluebells, it was very early in the year and it has been very cold for the time of year.  However, on Friday 9th April Freddy went for another look.

He started by going to the wooded paths behind the Lakeside Hotel.

He passed fields ...

and even an ancient ice house.

When he came across this sign he chose to sit on rather than read it and take the warning.

However, he did manage to cross the railway lines safely.

The first flowers he came across were white and yellow.

Well a few bluebells, not exactly the forest floor covered in them, as it will be, but he found some.

He found a stall selling eggs by a farm gate.  Baboons always love finding things for sale outside farms and houses.

These cows must have been scared of baboons, they ran away and you can only just see them in the distance.  They didn't realize that Freddy was more scared of them.

On the way back Freddy noticed this gate.  It shows that in 2011 it was the 40th anniversary of the steam railway. That means it will be 50 years this year.  Freddy is hoping for some exciting celebrations.

Spring flowers

We haven't blogged for quite a long time, that work thing and not being able to go anywhere has made blogging difficult.  However, Friday was Good Friday and a no work day, so we went for a walk and Ernest Baboon hunted down Spring flowers to be photographed with.

It didn't take long before we came across a lovely bank of primroses, which are really in season at this time of year.

It didn't take long again before we came across another seasonal flower, daffodils.

Ernest was very excited to come across these scooters, they are found around the town as a means of getting around, you can leave then at your destination and they will be used by somebody else.  Ernest had to give them a try.

That was fun, but we were on a walk so we carried on.

Near Holy Cross church in the village of Binstead, Ernest had to jump onto a hedge to get out of the way of the lorry that was emptying the dust bins.  He found this lovely tree covered in white blossom.

Outside the Fishbourne Inn in the village of Fishbourne, where the car ferry comes in, we found some late snowdrops, that was lucky as it is quite late for them. What was not so lucky was that, because of the lockdown, the Inn was not open.

On the way back Ernest found some pink blossom and he decided that this tree was a good one for some climbing and swinging.

It is a little bit early for bluebells, but Ernest did find a few early ones, that was lucky because last Tuesday we had walked in the bluebell wood and not found a single one.  We will be looking for more later when the come more into season.

Rocky, Rafiki, Roco, Gilberto and Richardson (left to right), were happy to find the Easter chocolates.