In between fantasy and reality, between the seasons of the year and the time of day, lies a place where the magical beauty of nature is reclaiming the land.
So reads the About Land and Destination Guide description for Enchanted Glen, a marvellous Homestead region held and designed by Flower Caerndow and which I recently had the opportunity to visit after noting it in the Destination Guide.
The Landing Point sits on the south coast of the region alongside the junction of a gravel footpath, one arm of which sweeps around the inlet sitting behind the landing point, to follow a headland as it curls around the inlet to end at an ivy-hung pavilion.
Directly opposite the Landing Point lay a set of steps leading up to the central highlands of the region, while a second arm of the path runs inland to where another set of steps lead upwards, a tunnel close by also inviting visitors to go underground.
However, the simple fact is that wherever you go within Enchanted Glen, the regions offers a lot to see and appreciate. Caught under an EEP setting created be Flower, every inch of the setting has a sense of beauty and mystery much in keeping with its description.
The top of the hill offers a largely open landscape with scattered trees and shrubs. Also spread across its relatively flat top is a multitude of ruins suggesting this was once a place of import and give region a sense of age and romance. They sit draped with ivy and climbing vines or hugged by shrubs, tall grass and wild flowers, with standing stone on the north side of the hill.
The largest of the ruins overlooks a rocky shoulder of rock which may have once formed the roof of the caverns under the hill. However, a part of the roof appears to have collapsed, leaving a ring of rock looking down onto a river following outwards.
Water tumbles from the ruins above to feed this river, the falls forming a curtain of water behind which the bulk of these caverns sit. Meanwhile, the river flows outwards under the rest of the rocky shoulder, before branching into two streams to reach out to the east and north-east coasts of the island.
The island’s lowlands offer multiple routes of exploration with plenty to see that adds to the region’s serenity and grace. The local wildlife is sufficient to add a sense of life to the island and, in places, nicely frames the various places singles and couples might choose to sit and relax.
Such is the overall design of Enchanted Glen that lengthy descriptions are not required; it speaks clearly and softly for itself in so many ways. This being the case, I’ll simply going to encourage readers to take time out and go and visit and see for themselves – and offer Flower my thanks for her greeting while I was exploring, and for her very kind gift.
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- Enchanted Glen (rated Moderate)
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