Inundation

It's that time again and Red Rise runs well beyond its banks, inundating the shade. The New Forest in renowned for its rare bog woodland habitats and they've certainly come back into their own after their restoration in recent years. Increasing wetness makes moving about the forest during the wet season quiet a mission, as even the dry bit are wet to a degree and the wet bits are extensive and really wet.  When the forest gets like this, and it can get much worse than this, it's easy to imagine what a perilous environment it must have posed to the pre road traveler. I should imagine that there'd have been times of the year when travelers would have postponed their journeys or taken the a longer route around the forest, for fear of calamity.