The River Dart Country Park near Ashburton has the delightful property of being open free of charge in the evenings. We took advantage of the fact by playing on the Anaconda Run - a long snakelike tube down whose dark depths one can slide at great speed on an old sack, never quite knowing who or what one will bump into during the descent, nor which way up one will be on emergence at the bottom! Needless to say, there was plenty of fun to be had.

After a bit of confusion we found our way out through the rear entrance of the Park and then returned homewards via Holne Chase, enjoying a water fight before trying the famous Hembury Track in the semi-darkness.