How Hill Nature Reserve

We went to How Hill with our friends, K. and T. Had hoped maybe to see the Swallowtail butterflies as this is one of the few places in Norfolk where they are found.
HL  booked for us all to go on a boat trip on a little electricity powered boat run by the Broads Authority called the Electric Eel. The ticket office is in Toad Hole Cottage. There is something rather Wind in the Willows about phoning Toad Hole Cottage and asking if you can reserve a place on the Electric Eel....though the man on the desk rather broke the spell by saying, "Hello, Toad Hole Centre." Everything has to be a Centre these days (if it isn't a hub)...
But the boat trip was charming, as was the nature walk and the secret garden. There is something other worldly and dreamy about it all, the dappled light and the reeds, the lapping of the water and the wind rippling through the rushes. We didn't get to see any Swallowtails - except that Hanne Lene did see a butterfly in the distance which probably was one, but it didn't settle and vanished before we could be sure. We did however see a Humming Bird Hawkmoth, Marsh Harriers and a Buzzard as well as a grass snake swimming. And we sat in the sun and had a picnic. So it was a lovely day.