We drove to Shapwick Heath reserve car park. The plan was to do a circular route including lunch at Glastonbury and back through Ham Wall reserve, but the fields alongside the road were so flooded we decided to change the plan. We walked through Ham Wall reserve along the raised path.
Some of the reserve trails were under water.
Birds seen included Snipe, Marsh Harriers, Peregrine Falcon, the usual ducks. Exiting the reserve, we started down a footpath but two dayglo-jacketed old cyclists in succession, one riding one-handed and brandishing a saw in the other hand, warned us that the path ahead was blocked by fallen trees and flood-water deeper than they’d ever known. (They were each, apparently, lucky to be alive.) So we took the road instead.
In places the road was flooded. We walked past peat works and came into Glastonbury through a timber yard and scrap merchant.
In Glastonbury we stopped for a coffee, then went up the Tor.
We had a nice lunch in an ancient hostelry and then returned back the way we came.
Two different approaches to traversing the flood:
Pheasant schnitzel for dinner.