A Scenic Autumn Wander

All images by Michael Coleran.

Shared with permission.

If you start near the river, it's the River Wyre by the way, you will see if you are lucky one of our residents Herons.  They stand proudly on the banks, eagle eyed for looking for fish in the fast moving water.

If you are very very lucky, you might also see one of the few otters that have recently taken up residence.

Wandering along the riverbank will take you to this lovely grassy area, but beware of Labradors and retrievers running happily running up to you after a swim in the river, they have been known to shake and shake and leave the occasional muddy footprints. 

The ruins of Greenhalgh Castle.

If you keep going along the river and step out onto the end of the High Street where I used to live and then walk over the bridge past Sainsbury's you will eventually come to the ruins of the castle.  There's not much left now, but once it was magnificent.  Lots of houses in our town boast a few stones in their walls from the original castle.

You can get as close to it as Michael got here to take photo, but access to the ruins is now not allowed, it's even fenced off from the sheep.

Years ago it was accessible to everyone, but I guess one too many little boys thought that scaling the walls was a good idea.  

We did make sure that Simon was very conscious of causing no damage, and he only posed for the photograph.

Come back into town and walk past Sainsbury's, keep going and you will pass the Royal Mail sorting office, then cross the mini-roundabout and take a left and you will come to the park on your left and Aldi on your right.

But if you keep going along the lane you will come to the canal bridge, and then you can walk down the ancient stone steps for some more nature and glorious Autumn colours.

I love the old bridges that are all along the canal.  It's Lancaster Canal, and is unusual in that it has no locks over it's 42 mile length.  Which we really appreciated when we had our little holiday on a narrowboat on this canal a couple of years ago.  

The colours are magnificent aren't they, this is truly my favourite time of the year.

I hope you enjoyed this little jaunt around my current home town.  

Many thanks to Michael for permission to use his lovely photos.  He's one of our official town photographers, and is there for all the events that go on as well as being out snapping away at the wildlife, nature and changing seasons.

Sue xx