It's nice to see bloggers posting about our new signage at Cors Caron. But Iestyn & I would like to point out that we have put the new signage exactly where we need it to deal with people either getting lost or being unsure of where they are and what their choices are - people really do get lost on Cors Caron sometimes!.
We often speak to people in the car park, on the railway line or on the boardwalk about their experience and specifically about how easy it is to find there way around.
Please bear in mind that you lot, as mostly regular visitors to Cors Caron and the countryside in general, know where you are when you visit or are confident & skilled enough to find out where you are. We get quite a lot of visitors coming for the first time who don't have good navigation skills. We want to help them enjoy their visit and feel confident about exploring all of our access routes if they choose to. We have noticed the following confusions arising relatively often:
1. Visitors not knowing whether to turn left or right to get to the main boardwalk when they leave the
car park (a surprising number of people have no idea how to read a map).
2. Visitors getting to the turn to the bog hide (the big one, renamed because, as you all know, not
many birds are seen from it!) and not even realising that it is there, so they miss it.
3. Visitors getting to the turn to the bog hide and not realising that they are on a circular route, so
they bottle out and turn back, missing out on the rest of the loop.
Hence the new, additional signage. We know it ain't pretty, and in some cases we will modify it to reduce its visual impact, but it really will stop people getting lost and hopefully help them enjoy their visit.