Every year, Cammas Hall Fruit Farm puts on a huge pumpkin display and other events throughout the year. It is a family-run farm on the border of Hertfordshire and Essex about an hour north of London. The farm operates "pick your own" fruit and vegetables, a restaurant, corn maze, and more. They have been hosting an annual pumpkin patch with pumpkin displays and Halloween fun for the past few years, and I've been wanting to go but never got around to it until this year October. This year, the pumpkin mosaic is even larger, and they have a pyramid made of pumpkins, a couple of Halloween tunnels (one of them scary), and a lot more.
Upon arrival, I was told to go through the Halloween tunnels. The first one is not scary. The second one is scary and optional. The first was a long tunnel with pumpkin lights.
Afterwards, I entered the second tunnel, which was scary. I was greeted by the button-eyed Coraline character, and she told me to choose between one of four doors and enter. I selected the right door, I think, and I entered into an area that was maze-like with different scary or spooky scenes. I was on edge as there are other characters around, some of them animatronics and some of them "real" and sometimes it may not be easy to spot who is real and who is not real.
Beetlejuice and Wednesday Adams were there, and I walked through a lot of different settings and passed props.
One area of the tunnel was maze-like with glowing paint.
I made it out alive, of course, and I then had time in the pumpkin patch. The pumpkins were arranged by different colours and sizes. There were the standard orange, dark orange, light orange, yellow with stripes, grey, and a brown colour. I have never seen the brown colour pumpkins before. The grey ones are the best for eating.
The pumpkin pyramid was actually a volcano. In the top was a real flame that would go "off" and make a rumbling sound, and smoke would also come off the other side. Visitors can walk inside it and out the other side.
I treated myself to a hot chocolate and a pumpkin sugar cookie.
There were also other people dressed up as scarecrows and taking photographs.
The brown pumpkins were unique to me as I had never seen a brown pumpkin before.
There were also gourds and squash and ones that had been crossed over to create their own hybrid. The only thing that I do not seem to find anywhere in England (which we have in America) is the decorative corn ("Indian corn").
There are many photo opportunities around.
I also had a look at the corn maze, which is dinosaur-themed this year. They are also hosting live music with a spooky Halloween theme.
Happy Halloween!
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