Continuing from our holiday in Cornwall, we'd travelled a little North to stop with some friends of Peter's on a wonderful farm in Devon. We were very well looked after there. So well in fact, we didn't leave till late morning.
We'd planned a short walk from Belstone to Belstone Tor and back. Only five miles,(because we'd have a long drive afterwards), but this would be my first experience of Dartmoor, and I was really looking forward to it.
Dartmoor didn't disappoint:
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| Nine Maiden stone circle |
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| The Logan Stone and the Irishman's Wall |
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| Higher Tor |
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| Wind Carving |
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| Oke Tor |
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| More rocks at Oke Tor |
This area is owned by the MOD and used for training. As we sat at ate our lunch at Oke Tor, we heard several bouts of automatic gunfire. The noise continued and the firing sounded quite close. I looked around for the red warning flags that would've have told us we shouldn't be there. There weren't any, (so we hadn't missed them), and we could only assume we were safe. But the noise was quite unnerving, and probably hastened our decision that it was time to leave.
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| Looking across to South Tawton Common |
<< Mulder n Scully could base a whole episode on this lot. This area is owned by the MOD. I wonder what went on here?
Sadly, this was the last day of our holiday. But we have had a fantastic few days, and would very very gladly do it all over again.
Map of the route >>
Many thanks to Sylvia and Rod for making us so welcome and looking after us so wonderfully well.
