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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Light on water

Having caught up with the backlog of the holiday snaps I started working on the relatively small number I’ve taken since I’ve been back and wondering about my next post.  These are not all taken on the same day but I realised that on a number of days I’d taken photos [...]

Evening storm

On a Wednesday night I will often walk with friends on Dartmoor however it has rained quite a lot recently so we decided to take a shorter walk in the Bay.

This shows the storm approaching.

There was a fairly brief storm, rain, hail, sleet  (which we did not shelter [...]

A walk frustrated

Another of those days when I set out in hope of a walk.  This time I had not driven far before I realised I was unlikely to get much of a walk in and I planned to be back for the afternoon to watch the rugby so my time was a bit limited.

Even more water

A quick post and a follow up to a couple of other ones.  It has continued to rain heavily for some days now. My last post here showed the water level at salmon leap on the River Dart a week back. This is the same spot yesterday. The concrete channel – seen [...]

The power of water

The UK has been suffering from some fairly substantial rainfall over the past week or so (high winds too).  The Westcountry has not been as badly affected as the north west for example but rivers have risen substantially and there has been some flooding.

I’ve wanted to try and get out [...]