Slightly cloudy Easter Sunday morning, we decided to meet at Benson MacDonald’s for 10 am. Scott, Ali, Shifty, Shannon, Debs, Lee, Matt, Chris and Jane attended. A few of us managed to get a cheeky MacDonald’s breakfast in before we left for Beale.

We left Benson around 10:30 and headed down the A4074 and some other brilliant mini roads. Luckily the sun started to burn through on our way to make the day even better.

We arrived in Pangbourne where the sat nav managed to take us down a narrow track, resulting in us all pulling off some brilliant 10 point turns!! Once back on route it turned out the correct turning was only 200 yards down the road.

On arrival we managed to bag ourselves a good parking spot and Shifty got some good pics, whilst a few were occupied with some Micro Pigs, couple of the girls decided they wanted one!

£9.00 later we got into the park and started making our way around the animals. At this point the sun come right out the temp was lovely. 

After continuing to walk around some more of the animals it was now getting on for lunch time, around 1pm we made our way back out towards the cars and sat down for a picnic, where some were tucking into sandwiches and lots of goodies. Unfortunately Matt was being stubborn and not eating anything except a packet of crisps, until mummy Debs stepped in and laid down the laws!

Headed back into the park around 2.30 used our free train ticket (that we acquired with our entry fee). After our 10 minute trip we headed to the bit of the park that we had missed, the racoons, meerkats, ducks and the slightly randy capybara!!

Once we had seen it all we headed back to the cars to make our way home. In South Central tradition we stopped off at a local pub for a cheeky pint before jumping in the cars and setting off.

Was a great SCMC day out as usual, looking forward to the next!