Great colours on this evening’s walk – from the greens of the moss on the trees in Barton Wood to the quality of the light looking across the Bristol Channel to Wales.
Danny Jarvis, 4 February 2021
Evening Walk
Category: Seasons
Winter at the Valley of Rocks
Helwell Bay
The beach between Watchet and Doniford is home to some of the earliest ammonite fossils recorded in Britain.
The red and green striped rocks on your left are Mercia Mudstones, dating from a time when the landmass was part of an ancient desert near the hot equator, similar to the Sahara today; on your right are grey mudstones belonging to the Helwell Marls. These marls are the youngest Jurassic rocks exposed on the Somerset coast and date from around 200 million years ago, when sea levels rose and Watchet was submerged in shallow seas. Here you will find some of the earliest ammonite fossils recorded in Britain.
Love Watchet
Lewis Winter took the kids for a walk on 3 February, enjoying the sunshine, and came back with these photos:
Hoar Frost on Exmoor
Photo by Roger Shattock.
Snowdrop Valley
It’s finally February! The month of hope and the promise of spring.
Sadly, Snowdrop Valley won’t be open this year. So we thought we share some photos from last year with you. Lin Selley posted them in our FB Photo Group.
The Skies over Hadden Hill
Last Monday when we had the most beautiful snow day on Exmoor, Andrea Corrie took these two phots at Hadden Hill.
Snow at Court Down
“Just a reminder of Mondays wonderful weather over Court Down as we seem to be back to grey skies. Noticed a few traces of planes around in the sky. Keep cheerful, keep well.”
Alan Ottey
Babbling Brook
“Some photos from our Babbling Brook walk this morning, near Challacombe.”
By Sarah Veen, Sunday 24 January 2021
Dusk at the Valley of Rocks
Rebecca Crush went for a late afternoon walk at the Valley of Rocks and took these photos for us:
Morning visit
“So I looked out of the kitchen window and saw a lovely sunrise plus some hinds on the hill. As I had finally got around to buying a tripod, which arrived yesterday, I thought great, I’ll photograph those. Something made me look right and yippee! The stags had decided to pay me a visit! They hung around for an hour despite me letting my dogs out and we then watched them nonchalantly jump into our bracken bank before sauntering off into our woods. It’s not often you get to photograph deer whilst still in pj’s ( it was a bit nippy!) from outside the kitchen!”
By Pauline Richards
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