We have a beautiful beach about an hour from where we live and this week on half term we have had a *few* days of lovely sunny weather. But not too many. So we made the most of it. It is a really beautiful area and we walked to the beach through the woods which so reminded us of our holidays in France. Those lovely tall trees with dappled sunshine and sandy under foot. Made us hanker after a cheeky bottle of red, a freshly baked baguette and some smelly cheese.
There was a little bit of posing by a certain little girl who had just got herself some new gigs 🙂 I think these are the best yet!
Formby is the home to the endangered red squirrels, you can walk along a lovely boardwalk area and try to see some of them. We usually do get to see some of them, they are quite friendly although obviously you are encouraged not to feed them!! The beach is owned by the national trust so there are plenty of signposted areas with little bits of information about the squirrels and why they are endangered. We had a lovely walk through that part of the forest. Including finding the most bizarre looking tree stump that looks like it just came straight out of the water in a scene from Captain Hook!
We walked to the beach which is wide and sandy for the kids to have a play, inevitably we had a toddler faceplant in one of the pools of seawater but she was pretty game about it!.
Wet kids meant home time eventually, once we had climbed the dunes out of the beach and a stop off for some tea on the way home.
All in all pretty good!
What a lovely day out. The woods look stunning with the sun shining through the trees and the beach looks fab! Wet children resulting in early finish – been there 🙂
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Wow amazing sandy beach and beautiful sunny day! Looks like you had a great day.
That looks like such a wonderful place to explorer and I love the look of the beach
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Lovely to hear of somewhere where we still have red squirrels and how perfect to have this gorgeous woodland walk and end up on a sandy beach. sunning photos, it all looks so inviting. Thanks for sharing your half term photos on Country Kids
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What gorgeous photos, looks like lots of fun x.
gorgeous gorgeous photos Sarah. I remember seeing the sun in the blue sky taken on the beach on instagram and really liked it a lot.i just love that you walk through a wood to reach that oasis at the end x
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I laughed my head off at “France En Scouse”. Love the pictures at the beach.
Wow what a great place to have on your doorstep – and that beach looks fab 🙂
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What gorgeous day and beach. Did you see anyone read your “partyofseven” you’d written in the sand?
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oh wow, what a fab day out! I’m so jealous you live so close to such a lovely beach
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