Summer poses its own set of challenges. This season’s weather hasn’t been great with few warm weather days. Yes there has been sun but it’s often felt more like late October than high Summer. But the weather hasn’t deterred the crowds. Try to go anywhere around midday and the car parks are mobbed. Hawklad doesn’t do mobbed car parks….

But leave it until the evening and suddenly the car parks are empty. Ok that usually means the venue is shut but not everywhere. Just like Dalby Forest. A few hours earlier this walk would have been rammed with hikers, dog walkers and mountain bikers but now at 6-30pm it’s all change. It’s quiet, we are the only car in the car park. A 2 hour walk and we didn’t see another soul.

Or just like 6-30pm on the North East Coast. A couple of intrepid surfers enjoying warming drinks on the beach. A couple of ball chasing dogs with well wrapped up owners. That’s it. Solitude.

Yes 6-30PM cuts down the places open but it opens up so much space and peace. It works for us. Just don’t forget the Woolly Hats, it is Summer here.

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  1. I always took my lake vacations at the end of September. The wster was nicely warmed by the summer dun, and the warer-lovers were home wotking or wherever. Yeah, I had to bring my own treats and liquids, but there was no crowd, and no rowdiness. True vacations…

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  4. I’m also not good with packed car parks full of tourists. So when my daughter’s car broke down in the Starbucks car park yesterday, I had already done enough people watching from a passenger seat and went for a walk. I can only cope with a short amount of time looking out at all the folks looking in. It’s a two way form of voyeurism, and I’d been doing that nice smile and a nod for long enough, while she went to get her weird iced coffee (I’m too tight to pay Starbucks prices). I could carry on asking myself: Where have all these mixed bunch of people come from FFS?

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  8. It looks so peaceful and serene. I’m glad and inspired you find ways to experience and the joy of summer with Hawklad. Enjoy the rest of it up!

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