At Audubon Community Nature Center’s First Friday on February 7, Eileen and Jim Goodling will discuss their 16-day hiking adventure across Northern England.

Eileen and Jim Goodling will be the featured speaker at the next First Friday lunch at the Audubon Community Nature Center.

The Goodlings will present “Coast to Coast: A Walk Across England with Eileen and Jim Goodling” on Friday, Feb. 7, from 11 a.m. to noon. Their trip encompassed a 16-day walk across three national parks in the north of England.

On their most recent overseas adventure, the Goodlings traversed 200 miles of English trails from the Irish Sea to the North Sea. Their feet carried them through the Lake District, across the Dales, and through the Moors. They will share photos of their journey and stories of the scenery, people, and nature they encountered on their adventure.

Eileen Goodling grew up in nearby Sheffield, Pa., and Jim Goodling, also a Pennsylvania native, is from the Carlisle area. In recent years Mrs. Goodling retired from Jamestown Community College and Northern Pennsylvania Regional College and Goodling retired from the Warren County United Fund and as a planning director in both Warren, Pa., and Corning, N.Y.

Goodling is an avid walker and has walked the French Route of the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile trek in Northern Spain, on two occasions. He has also hiked all of the North Country Trail within the Allegheny National Forest (90 miles). The Coast to Coast walk was Mrs. Goodling’s first multi-day hike. Their first date was a hike at the Audubon Community Nature Center 41 years ago.

Those interested are welcome to bring a packed lunch and visit with the Goodlings after the program.

The program fee is $8 or $6 for Nature Center members and children ages 9 to 15. Reservations are appreciated by calling 716-569-2345 or online at AudubonCNC.org/events. Walk-ins are welcome.

Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. Visit the nearly 600-acre nature preserve, check in on the live birds of prey, and hike, snowshoe and cross country ski more than five miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free.

The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Visitors are welcome Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. Building admission is also free every Sunday for non-Nature Center members.