Winter walking on the moors

The "feel" of winter on the moors

Nothing in the way of snow however walking Dartmoor in the winter can be interesting with changeable weather. Photos from a recent walk on the south east of the moors. [...]

Winter in the Bay – light and activity

Misty beach in winter

Images taken at low tide in Winter around Preston, Paignton and Goodrington including kite and windsurfing and reflection in the sand. [...]

Walking the Redlake tramway

On the Redlake Tramway on southern Dartmoor

A walk and photographs from along the Redlake tramway on southern Dartmoor on a cold and wet December day 2011 [...]

Walking around the centre of southern Dartmoor

Overlooking Fox Tor Mire

Walking on southern Dartmoor in winter in wet conditions around Erme Pits and Fox Tor mire with some photos taken in late November 2011 [...]

Walking down the River Avon

This continues the blog here of a walk from Shipley Bridge up the Zeal Tor tramway to Western Whitaburrow and back down the Avon to the car.  The view above is from Petre’s Cross at Western Whitaburrow looking towards the barrow at Eastern Whitaburrow (both can have White Barrow in place [...]

Walking up the Zeal Tor tramway

A welcome opportunity for a walk on the moors with a friend took us to Shipley Bridge on the southern edge of the moors.  It was late February and, although not cold, the weather was best described as “mixed” I guess.  The car park there is often quite full and used [...]

Spring tides and surf in Torbay

The period of spring tides made me head into the Bay looking for the very low tide.  I’ve found in the past that you can access/photograph rock pools that cannot be seen for much of the month and that was the plan.  There was only one day of the peak tides [...]

Waves on Blackpool Sands

We went down to Blackpool Sands on a mostly sunny day and I got quite a few shots there and, a little later, at Slapton.  The above is looking out over Start Bay – the combination of the light on the water and the cloud was great.

Changeable weather around Dawlish Warren

It was time to get back to the coast again after some nice walks on Dartmoor.  There was only one day in the week when the forecast was for good weather so we headed over to Dawlish Warren.  My last blog was from the summer of 2010 and is [...]

Mining and antiquities on Dartmoor

Blocking stone on the rows on Challacombe Down

Effectively this is a follow on from my previous post from the same day’s walk here.  The photos in the previous one were orientated around the scenery on the day and this one covers some of the antiquities and remains in the Headland Warren area generally.  Walking south from [...]

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