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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3678507" data-attributes="member: 7131">February 12th: part IIOver the road the Boar sign continued, but we’d barely started exploring it when Arch, sotto voce, excitedly exclaimed “Boar, boar, boar!” And there they were, off to one side of the car park, working their way along the fence presumably erected to keep them out of an arboretum, the famous four, Speech House’s habituated Wild Boar! One day we’ll venture into the forest to try and find some properly wild-living ones, but for now these will do very nicely. I knew they were fairly unfazed by people being around but hadn’t appreciated how much they just flat out ignore you; I do wonder just how intrusive we would have had to be to get some sort of reaction but was not moved to try and resolve the question. We spent half an hour or so with the Boar, while they snuffled away through the leaf litter, stopping from time to time in a sunny spot to catch some rays. Just fabulous, the principle reason for our venture south, under the belt and well worth it.</blockquote>