Down Tor Stone Circle – Devonport Leat – Crazy Well Pool

May 30, 2015 by danaron

Parked at Burrator Lake and went up to Down Tor and to the magnificent Stone Circle and Row. Then we followed the Devonport Leat to Crazy Well Pool and back. Almost a year after this visit: Crazy Well with E and A

Down Tor Stone circle and row

Devonport Leat

Crazy Well Pool

Crazy Well Pool

Sailing, May 2015

May 25, 2015 by danaron

Went sailing in a calm day with a friend on the Hobie. All she asked was not to hit the water and stay dry. Oh well …

We used the Hobie as a platform to take pictures of the somewhat more challenging Laser 4000

The wet but happy look….

The rest of Tarka Trail

May 23, 2015 by danaron

A gorgeous day and not enough wind (for sailing), means it was great opportunity to complete the ‘upper part’ of the Tarka Trail. from Meeth to Great Torrington and from there to Bideford and back. We were on our bikes for 4.5 hours pedalling pretty much non stop and covered 34M (56km) of woodland (with almost painfully bright, new green foliage) and riverside dotted with bluebells, garlic, red campions and even a buzzard or two.

Here is Tarka trail the prequel from Oct. 2014: https://mostlyoutdoorsone.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/cycling-on-tarka-trail-bideford-to-braunton/

May Sailing

May 11, 2015 by danaron

Great southwesterly on Roadford today. Water is dark grey and we are sailing fast.. Pictures are snapshots from a video clip

Its this time of year again ….

May 9, 2015 by danaron

This seems to happen every year : https://mostlyoutdoorsone.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/bluebells-garlic-and-thundermstorms/

We went to check out Great Bradley Cottage Natural Burial Ground near Tiverton:

Belstone To Wild Tor

May 4, 2015 by danaron

Trying something else, this time most of the pictures are on GARMIN ADVENTURES website.

Here is the link: http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/danaron/belstone-to-wild-tor-may-2015/#overview

We started the walk on a sunny morning, climbing gently along and across the river Taw towards White Moor (little Hound Tor) stone circle. http://www.dartmoorwalks.org.uk/site/littlehoundtor.html The fresh southerly wind in our face was a clear sign that some clouds are approaching, and by the time we reached Wild tor we were happy to turn north and let the wind (and later the mist and rain) give us a push from the back..

The mist arrived and covered Belstone Tor ridge very quickly and it was impossible to see anything apart form the path we were trying to follow, until we made our way down to Belstone itself.