Gimmi shelter

There's never a shortage of shelters to be found about the forest. Shelters of branch and bough, of leaf and fern, some made for fun, some built for purpose, some that are humble and some that are grand, some from the text book, others from the unfettered imagination of the builder. I thought this particular one had a pleasing form and appeared to be part of the woodland; it didn't look out of place at all, wholly natural. It's good to see the shelter building imperative of our primal nature still being accessed; it should be encouraged. Although wild camping isn't allowed in the forest, evidence of it's practice are still quite common, the signs of poor practice are easy to identify, harder though to identify where it's been done properly and where done with due attention a blind eye should be turned .