The New Year has started well on Exmoor – the sun is out! Well, there are still a few clouds about, but at least it hasn’t rained. Fingers crossed the sun is here to stay. We’ve had so much rain in 2012 that it would be really nice to go out and not sink into mud.

Yesterday we asked our followers on Facebook to send us their favourite photos of 2012. Here they are:

Exmoor Ponies on Anstey Common (Dave Rowlatt)

Exmoor Ponies on Anstey Common (Dave Rowlatt)

Bossington Bay (Paul)

Clouds over Exmoor (Paul)

Countisbury Hill (Paul)

Badgeworthy Water (Dave Rowlatt)

Exmoor Coast (Dave Rowlatt)

Exmoor Coast (Dave Rowlatt)

Looking east from County Gate (Dave Rowlatt)

Twitchen in the Valley (Dave Rowlatt)

Electric Bike Ride across Exmoor (Paul Clews)

Brown Trout in the River Exe (Jim Winzer)

Hinds and young stag on Dunkery (Jim Winzer)

Sunset over Brendon Common (Jim Winzer)

Swans on the Marsh, Bossington Beach (Jim Winzer)

High Tide in April 2012, Lynmouth Harbour (Jon Coole)

Buzzard near Dunkery (Peter French)

Cornham Brake (Peter French)

Deer at Dunkery, September 2012 (Peter French)

Dunkery Beacon, September 2012 (Peter French)

Where the Moor meets the Sea (Peter French)

Wild Skies over Exmoor (Peter French)

Wild and Wet Exmoor (Peter French)

Woody Bay (Paul)