Hampshire Guest Guide
NEW FOREST
tour of the Beaulieu River and a full day’s Cycle Hire. And with free cycle route maps available, you can go and explore The New Forest at your own pace. For groups, how about an adventure with a view? Take to the trees in a variety of High & Low Rope challenges. Based at their woodland activity site, the New Forest Activities ropes course offers up endless amounts of fun for groups. You’ll be in safe hands as you spend the day learning new skills, working together as a team and most importantly – having fun! Or perhaps start learning a different type of skill with a New Forest Activities Bushcraft session. You’ll be taught basic survival skills by your Bushcraft expert including foraging, shelter building and fire lighting. You’ll even get to cook your lunch over an open fire! Whatever you decide and whatever your age or abilities, New Forest Activities has an adventure for everyone! Visit their website to find out more about activities and upcoming special events.
Visitors to New Forest Wildlife Park will have the thrill of seeing some new animals in 2018. Autumn, a female red fox, has been getting on swimmingly with fellow red fox Copper after moving to the New Forest from Derbyshire. Giant otters Panambi and Meamu are also settling in well in their New Forest home. Several rescued fallow deer have joined the deer enclosure and more fallow deer from Derbyshire will soon be moving in to a new paddock near the European bison. A captive bred long-eared owl called Twill will be meeting schoolchildren and visitors in 2018 and both the hedgehogs and smooth coated otters heard the patter of tiny feet last year. Park owners Carol and Roger Heap reluctantly decided to close the Chestnut Centre in Derbyshire in 2017 due to their forthcoming semi-retirement. So the majority of their animals will be moving to the New Forest, including tame Asian-short-clawed otter Pickwick, who loves to be the centre of attention. 2018 promises to be an exciting year, with entertaining events and more animals on show to the public. Visitors can see several species of otters, owls and deer, plus bison, a lynx, red foxes, ferrets, harvest mice, polecats, pine martens, mouflon, wolves, wallabies, badgers, souslik, water voles, hedgehogs, Scottish wildcats and wild boar. With two action-packed adventure playgrounds, animal encounters, keeper talks, a gift shop and tempting café too, New Forest Wildlife Park makes for a fun-filled and fabulous day out for all the family. LOCATION: Deerleap Lane, Nr Ashurst, Southampton SO40 4UH www.newforestwildlifepark.co.uk 023 80292 408 | info@newforestwildlifepark.co.uk @nfwildlifepark
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