Westbury sub Mendip Hike To Cheddar In The Spooky Mist, Part VI, 'The Middle Down Drove' by Sheila,
Channel: semw52
Date: 2019-12-20

I stop for a little picnic once  I leave the Draycott Sleights fields---Hot water, crisps, cheese and chocolate---A time  to reflect on the  day's walk so far with the Middle  Down Drove ahead which I love--it takes me back in time--the peace and usually the great views and the flowers but in the Mist the peace is extenuated and heightened and the  sounds  almost silenced except for the occasions roar of the  bull. A huge field of cattle containing 100s of  them run next to the Drove and the massive bull is obvious--but with only one huge curly horn remaining-- 'Big Brown One horn' I name him surrounded by his family and definitely in control--dictating the direction and speed of the herd---amazing huge herd of a mixture of cattle in size, sex and colour---It is possible that when I got lost earlier on the hike I  ended up in a similar field ----fortunately the thick Mist stopped me from seeing the size of the herd at that time---I certainly would never risk entering a field with such numbers---the cattle themselves were massive--Anyway I continue to wander along the drove until I reach the Nature Reserve where I spot the ponies in the mist among the trees---quietly moving about in their own domain.....A final video VII to follow folks as I wander in the Nature Reserves here full of history, mystery and geology---the final  section on the way to Cheddar