Goodbye, Allan.

Our dear friend is returning to live and work in Australia. Years ago he and his wife arranged this outing on a canal boat on the River Lee Navigation.

We went to see a field of early marsh orchids.The leaflet says there are 10,000 of these flowers on an area the size of a football pitch.
'These delicate flowers are one of only a few plants able to thrive in a nutrient poor soil, created with waste ash from a coal-fired power station.'

I've had these photos for ages waiting to be scrapped. Sadly Joan is no longer with us and we miss her.