We provide a geometrical construction of the unique slim dense near hexagon with parameters (s, t, t2) = (2, 5, {1, 2}). Using this construction, we construct the rank 3 symplectic dual polar space DSp(6, 2) which is the unique slim dense near hexagon with parameters (s, t, t2) = (2, 6, 2). Both near hexagons are constructed from two copies of the unique generalized quadrangle with parameters (...