{"id":5684,"date":"2019-05-15T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2019-10-06T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:29:50","slug":"the-wye-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5684","title":{"rendered":"The Wye Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The River Wye – quite possibly the cleanest and most picturesque river in England.<\/p>\n

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Biblin Bridge – built by the Forestry Commission.<\/p>\n

I’ve never been convinced that rope bridges are a good idea. Even less so when they cross wide, fast-flowing rivers and happen to bounce as you walk over them.<\/p>\n

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A dog’s eye view (note the tips of Meghan’s ears)<\/p>\n

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Discovered this cheeky chappy at the base of the bridge. Painted on the back a Facebook reference to fod rocks.<\/p>\n

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Further up stream the village of Symonds Yat.<\/p>\n

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Symonds Yat West.<\/p>\n

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View downstream from high above the valley at Yat rock<\/p>\n

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And looking upstream through the gorge with the well-known Peregrine site to the right, high on the limestone cliffs.<\/p>\n

Really fortunate to enjoy a superb close-up view of the female Peregrine flying over the viewpoint. Also a Goshawk, Buzzards and a pair of Ravens. Strange to think that a similar view has been enjoyed for the past 12,000 years with Archaeologists recently discovering early hand tools, bones from hyenas, sabre-toothed cats and a mammoth from the nearby hill-fort.<\/p>\n

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The River Wye – quite possibly the cleanest and most picturesque river in England. Biblin Bridge – built by the Forestry Commission. I’ve never been convinced that rope bridges are a good idea. Even less so when they cross wide, fast-flowing rivers and happen to Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[869,872,867,868,873,870,871],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscapes","tag-biblin-bridge","tag-fod-rocks","tag-forest-of-dean","tag-river-wye","tag-rope-bridge","tag-symonds-yat","tag-yat-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}