The Knyszyn Forest

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We met our friends Radek and Dorota at Białystok station, and caught the next local train up to Czarna Białostocka 25 minutes away. We walked around Czarna in search of the narrow gauge line, reportedly to be opening but there was no evidence of operation. There was aslight disadvantage that the line into the Knyszyn Forest was severed by a major road.

We followed the yellow trail along forest tracks into the forest towards Supraśl. The wood anemones were in full bloom and the leaves gave a shimmer of green. With our portable sun god, Lucky (pictured), the weather held and we were spared the attention of the roaming thundery showers. Our route finished by the sandy hills near Podsupraśl, a steep set of ridges rising out of the plain formed by glacial action, probably an esker or a moraine. At Supraśl we did not have time to check out the café, and we got some unfriendly stares from the local youth as we sat at the bus stop - we’ve got plenty of knuckle draggers in Leeds, so it’s nothing new, just that it is a pity in a very small place. We did not have chance to spend any time with Radek and Dorota in Białystok, the last train to Warsaw left soon after we arrived, at 1815. The next was at 0300 next morning! Białystok is 110 miles from Warsaw on a straight main line.
See what I mean about the state of the railways?

8&9 May Białystok: work or catching up with Kasia’s friends.

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Photos

Ożynnik: birches
birch woodland near the hamlet of Ożynnik, south of Czarna Białostocka.

Góra Podjałówka
Góra Podjałówka, the "K2" of the Knyszyn forest, a sandy ridge rising above the Supraśl valley.

Lucky in the Knyszyn Forest
Lucky the duckling, our portable sun god. Usually works, and did today, with only a few drops of rain, as opposed to a big hailstorm which the town of Sokólka got.

Comments

[kris]

niced description of Knyszyn Forest
Very nice description of Forest trails.Remainds me my walks around those places.Beautifull pictures of spring time woods. Kris