MY PARENTS LIVE right next to the Wirral Country Park and so, Bank Holiday weather being altogether better than is usually the case for such a holiday, Willaston was the destination by car, from where a twenty-one mile round-trip by bike took in the Dee Estuary and ice cream at West Kirby’s Marine Lake. Childhood memories of Hilbre Island – and of bike rides then, and picnics – and some of Wirral’s most glorious wildlife, flowers and fauna … a day well spent.
Please click on this lower photo to enlarge. One of my father’s favourite places near his home. Hilbre Island is in the background. Observing the many happy people traversing the Marine Lake wall my father still asks “what is it about water that so draws people?” Me too.
