We spent the day in Poole today, and a gorgeous warm and sunny day it was too. We parked overlooking Poole Harbour in Baiter Park and had a nice walk to the Quay. We then tried to find a geocache but there were too many people about so we had to give up.
Looking across Poole Harbour towards Sandbanks in the back centre and Brownsea Island on the right,
and looking the other way with Brownsea Island on the left.
This tree was quite unusual, the leaves were green on top shaped a bit like a sycamore but very white underneath, this is it blowing in the wind looking mainly white. I'll need to look into this one!
A steam train - not something you see everyday!
We happened to be walking near the railway line along the edge of a park when a steam train passed by, apparently there is no steam to be seen because this bit of track runs downhill so the train was coasting as it approached Poole station. We looked the train up on the internet and during the summer it runs once a week from London to Weymouth and back. This was the last week of the summer service and there were plenty of happy waving people on it!!!
Near Poole Bridge we saw this lifeboat. The RNLI headquarters are just up the road in Poole so there are usually lifeboats in this area.
Early evening at Poole Quay.
Low tide.
Poole Quay is a really nice place and we had an enjoyable few hours wandering around - the miles soon added up and we found we had walked over 6 miles.
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