Tag Bale Hill

Thursday 19-5-11 Drove through Grassington (again) well I can see the hills from the kitchen window so they have a pull, and parked in the picnic area at Grimwith reservoir

I've had a couple of e-mails saying the photo's are small  ! but if you left click on them they should open in a new window, larger, then blue return arrow top left to return to Blog.
straight out of the car park the bankings were covered in wild flowers

and Fractals

Down to the reservoir and along the dam wall

with lots of squeaking and whistling from the Oystercatcher mob

followed the track round

and over the bridge at Blea Gill

in the woods over the bridge I spotted a few of these

carried on to the bridge at Gate Up Gill where I turned left along the old mine track

looking back down the track

carrying on the ruins of the mine come into view

with what looks like a winding wheel pit

as its inline with this open shaft ! one and two and three and four and - Clunk Splash !

looking up the valley from the mine

but I dropped down to the beck to find this

well I'm writing this so it was safe !

the valley to the left took my eye

so followed the small stream along

to find a hidden jem around the top corner

it sounded as good as it looks

looking back down the gill

the Bear found some Ocher slime

and some scum on the water

then made a Lavazza drip coffee

dinner was home made bread Doves wholewheat flour with a handfull of yellow sultanas and some orange calandula Marrigold petals baked in. With a tin of smoked Brisling in T sauce and not shown a sliced vine tomatoe on top with a glass of Fynbos South African Shiraz, it's in a Kumal bottle because on my last stock up shop for small bottles of wine they'd gone into plastic bottles ! so I opened a big bottle and refilled an empty from the last tour.

while sat in the sun listning to the waterfall there was a tit tit tit as I was being scolded by

I presume it had a nest near by as it kept flying up into the banking, but I didn't disturb it by having a look

I climbed up and out of the waterfall 001 Mark on the map and it's equally hidden from above

with just behind a ruin

but how did they get here this is the view the other way

as I headed over to Tag Bale Hill on the way back with Pendle Hill on the right horizon

with a view back down to the reservoir from here

I dropped down passing a fossilised stone car !

it was then onto the track around the res. with a quick pan of the camera and x2 clicks of the shutter

here's a crop from the original size of the second click

back along the dam wall and the final photo

Just thought I'd share, cheers all Danny