Up for a Challenge Krypton Factor Style

So what were these challenges we had to face on our Moyle Way walk?

Well firstly, as you can see from our picture below, we had a rather difficult (for us) river crossing.



While it was nice sunbathing on a sandy beach, it wasn't helping us get across. The river was too wide for us to jump across and it was flowing a bit fast for us to swim across, and anyway, although the sun was out, it was still February and, therefore, winter. While George searched around for raft building materials, I (Yorkie) found a much more attractive option. I spied with my little eye, a tractor, which the forestry workers had left unattended.


Can you see us climbing up to the cab. With this transport available to us, there was no way we were going to get wet and muddy! We drove across in style. It was only at this point that our minders caught us up and told us that we didn't need to cross at all and now needed to cross back to continue with the walk. Oh well, we thought, at least we'd had a bit of fun and in the end hadn't inconvenienced the real tractor driver by leaving his tractor the wrong side of the river (you might call it a stream, but to small bears like us, it was a river!)

But what was it we said about not getting wet and muddy?! We spoke far too soon. The Moyle way climbed upwards from the river and started to become very boggy.


In our picture you see us still looking quite clean, but we couldn't stay where we were all day, and had to take the path which was the muddy and boggy ground in the middle. Still, bears secretly quite like being messy, and we felt like real army commandos with our blackened faces.

Keep reading for the next instalment.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx

Walking the Moyle Way

After a relaxing day, it was time to get out and do some more serious walking, especially as the new day looked as if it was going to stay dry.


So here we are at the start of our walk giving you a flavour of the local scenery. We were surrounded by some lovely hills - the one you see beehind us Knocklayd. While it looked like it would be fun to climb, it wasn't one for this walk, as we already had 13 miles ahead of us without any detours.


The path we were walking on this occasion was the Moyle Way. For those who don't know the area, the Moyle refers to the area around Ballycastle and the local Council is the Moyle District Council. The Moyle way therefore is a 20 mile path taking in some of the best scenery of the area. We were walking the middle section and it is a very well waymarked walk. The waymarks, such as you see in our photo, pop up very frequently and were a welcome confirmation that we were on the right track. We wouldn't have wanted to stray too far off the path though as it was fairly wet underfoot and we could easily have sunk into a bog if we'd got lost.

Our next picture shows that after a stretch of forest walking the scenery became quite different and quite wild, with lots of moorland and small streams.


At this point in the walk, the path was the nice grassy track to the side of us. It did become a bit more challenging later on, as you'll find out if you keep reading.

By for now, love George, Yorkie, Eddie & Patrick xxx