Hosepipes, Gordale Scar and a Broken Camera
Several Water Companies in the south east of England today declared a hosepipe ban. Laugh, I nearly drowned. Living up north for the past couple of days i've been searching the internet for the plans to Noahs Ark.
Saturday out riding it rained, sleeted and peppershot us with hail, even the horses didnt want to be out. It takes talent to go down a hill on a horse walking backwards.
Sunday was even worse.....so we went walking......up a waterfall. Well once your wet your wet. We planned to go to Malham and walk along Janets Foss and then Gordale Scar finally crossing to Malham Cove.
Janets Foss is named after the queen of the Faries who is suppoed to live in a cave behind the fall. Foss its self is old norse word for force applied to a water fall. The last time we were here M was able to clamber up it and go into the cave, not something he was willing to do this time.
Gordale Scar its self is a massive gorge cut out of the limestone simply by the force of water. Its like a yorkshire version of the Grand Canyon. The waterfall is usually climable and that was our plan.
It was, i'm pleased to say, a time when age and wisdom over come youth and stupidity - i knew that age would come in useful sometime. We retreated half a mile and climed over the hill to the top of the gorge by a more sensible route. I'd loved to say that it was a drier route but by this time the rain was turning biblical.
I'd love to show you the photos but at this point my camera came up for the third and final time. So after some 4500 photos my trusty Pentax drowned. The really annoying thing is that 3 of us went walking and one, who shall remain nameless, came with out any waterproofs. I was done up like a condom. He was like SpongeBob SquarePants. His camera was still working at the end.
So do i have any sympathy for the fact that a hosepipe ban has been declared down south? Do i chuff.
P.S. My camera has had a Lazarus resuserection and is working again. Bugger, I was aiming to pursued J that i needed to get a Nikon D50.
As per usual the photos of the day can be found here on my stream on Flickr.
Saturday out riding it rained, sleeted and peppershot us with hail, even the horses didnt want to be out. It takes talent to go down a hill on a horse walking backwards.
Sunday was even worse.....so we went walking......up a waterfall. Well once your wet your wet. We planned to go to Malham and walk along Janets Foss and then Gordale Scar finally crossing to Malham Cove.
Janets Foss is named after the queen of the Faries who is suppoed to live in a cave behind the fall. Foss its self is old norse word for force applied to a water fall. The last time we were here M was able to clamber up it and go into the cave, not something he was willing to do this time.
Gordale Scar its self is a massive gorge cut out of the limestone simply by the force of water. Its like a yorkshire version of the Grand Canyon. The waterfall is usually climable and that was our plan.
It was, i'm pleased to say, a time when age and wisdom over come youth and stupidity - i knew that age would come in useful sometime. We retreated half a mile and climed over the hill to the top of the gorge by a more sensible route. I'd loved to say that it was a drier route but by this time the rain was turning biblical.
I'd love to show you the photos but at this point my camera came up for the third and final time. So after some 4500 photos my trusty Pentax drowned. The really annoying thing is that 3 of us went walking and one, who shall remain nameless, came with out any waterproofs. I was done up like a condom. He was like SpongeBob SquarePants. His camera was still working at the end.
So do i have any sympathy for the fact that a hosepipe ban has been declared down south? Do i chuff.
P.S. My camera has had a Lazarus resuserection and is working again. Bugger, I was aiming to pursued J that i needed to get a Nikon D50.
As per usual the photos of the day can be found here on my stream on Flickr.
posted by gerbil at 6:29 pm
3 Comments:
Beautiful countryside. When you have a hilly terrain and running water you have it is likely to generate a beautiful country side.... and throw in historical kind of things and you are in a photographer's paradise.
I invested in a Minolta SLF 201 when my first child was born, bought a bunch of barrel lenses and at for about a twenty year period was pretty much devoted to photography.
You are doing it good.
Something about the river or creek that is assoicated with Janet Foss reminds me of Virginia Wolf. That is not where she took her final dive is it?
No, and i had to google this, apparently she went for the long swim goodnight in the river Ouse in Sussex. Usually I doubt you could drown a small hobbit in janets foss but after a week of rain its a different matter.
Digital cameras these days make any one good, even me;)
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