Halsall, Southport Friday 15th August to Monday 18th August.
We had a long drive to Halsall, the idea being that it would break our journey home from Edinburgh. The Temporary Holiday site was in a school playground and was run by North West folk group.
Saturday 16th August 2008
As we hadn't done much proper walking over this holiday we decided it was time for a walk. We drove to Formby to do a walk along the coast and parked at a NT car park adjacent to a nature reserve. We walked into the forest and saw several red squirrels. We ended up sitting on a log for about an hour watching them with one coming to within about 3 ft of us. They have had an outbreak of squirrel pox virus in the reserve and the population of squirrels has fallen by about 2/3rds, from 250 but it was lovely watching a few scampering about. We abandoned our walk after that and sat on the beach instead.
As we hadn't done much proper walking over this holiday we decided it was time for a walk. We drove to Formby to do a walk along the coast and parked at a NT car park adjacent to a nature reserve. We walked into the forest and saw several red squirrels. We ended up sitting on a log for about an hour watching them with one coming to within about 3 ft of us. They have had an outbreak of squirrel pox virus in the reserve and the population of squirrels has fallen by about 2/3rds, from 250 but it was lovely watching a few scampering about. We abandoned our walk after that and sat on the beach instead.
Sunday 17th August 2008
It was a bit rainy but we decided to go to Crosby to see the Antony Gormley installation called "Another Place". We parked on the sea front at high tide and could just see a few iron heads sticking out of the water. We walked along the esplanade as the tide was going out and the iron men slowly became more visible. There are about 85 of them along a 3km stretch of coast. We walked to the end of the beach and then back again, stopping at a leisure centre for a cup of coffee. 
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