WildAbout Tours hosted by Guides David Thompson and Celia Spouncer
Nature, Tour, Wild, Coast, tours
2019 Programme
Wild Coastal Larder
Monday 27th May, Spring Bank Holiday
12.30 at Kearney Car Park
David Thompson will lead an exploration of the inter-tidal rocky shores, country lanes and an island around Strangford Lough Narrows. We will seek out the wild food bounty on our doorstep and discover ancient Roman salad leaves, the origin of our beetroot and a lettuce that grows in the sea. Our route will take in the Ards and Strangford Lough shores, and involves walking, sharing stories and some tasting.
Duration: 4 hours
Price: £30pp including foraged picnic
Booking Essential.
Amongst The Sails, Seals & Seabirds
Saturday 22nd June
Meet Ferry Quay, Portaferry - 10am – 1pm.
Join the flotilla of traditional boats and sails aboard the Saint Brendan and be amongst the spectacular Sail Past of the Festival. David Thompson will reveal the secrets of Strangford Lough, the tidal currents, seals, sea birds and islands. We will provide special lunch aboard.
Duration: 3 hours
Price: £25pp including cost of boat and picnic aboard.
Booking Essential.
Talk and Guided Swift Survey Portaferry with David Thompson and Mark Smyth
Tuesday 16th July
Meet Offices of SpouncerEcology Castle Yard Portaferry at 7pm.
Contribution to Northern Ireland Swift Group.
Come and find out about these wonderful birds that migrate from Africa to breed here in Portaferry.
Price: Free
Ards Peninsula ‘Lands End’ - A Dander Through Time
Saturday 27th July
Meet 12.30am Kearney
David Thompson will lead you, road and foot through the Ards Peninsula ‘Lands End’ - a landscape left behind by the last Ice Age, exploring time, place and 4000 years of human settlement. It will include a visit to a Neolithic burial chamber, high hill settlements, wishing wells, Tower Houses and a fishing village which became a film set. Here at the southern tip of the Ards Peninsula discover why the Vikings named a river which flows two ways Strangr-fjǫrðr.
Duration: 4 hours
Price: £30pp including foraged picnic
Booking Essential
Note - Please notify us of any dietary requirements