Blashford Lakes : 28th April 2014
We left Montacute on the morning of the 28th and did the drive through Sherborne, Sixpenny Handley and Cranborne, stopping for breakfast at Fordinbridge. From there we drove south to the Blashford Lakes complex. Finding where to go was complicated by the fact that the reserve has been asked not to display a sign at the relevant place because it is already an accident black spot. This meant that we missed the turning and had to go all the way down to the Ringwood roundabout and come all the way back up again. In the end we found the car park for the visitor centre on Ellingham Drove. We parked up and had a quick look in the visitor centre. It was rather basic and more a sort of offices for the staff than anything else. It did have nice loos, though and had a little second hand book shelf where I managed to buy a couple of books for the price of a donation.