Dawn Biking

Today’s dawn reminded me of just how lucky I am to have such a stunning playground on my doorstep

This is my regular ‘before work’ bike ride – I am pleased I took the camera. You need to click through

Soaking up the Souks

 

If you have to shop - let it be in the souks of Marrakech

 

The narrow winding derbs

  Tasty tajines

  

the riot of colours

  

textures

 

and tack

are all good

We are watching you

Snapped this morning

Escape

Not long now - Hoping for some quality rivers, some good weather and lots of fun.
Locking the office door in 10 days time :-)

A clear sky

Are those dark bits storm clouds?

There's no water locally and still no rain forecast - the white water season seems to have dried up, the third trip cancelled. It's back to the sea kayak this weekend I guess.

Still I have a few river trips to foreign parts to look forward to :-)

A Frosty February Morning on the Forest

No Paddling this weekend

Off the water

A few weekends without floating my boat - it was time to build a toy shed

Sand in the face

Redend Defaced
A short paddle out to Old Harry took us past Redend Point on Studland at the weekend. Here the coloured sands, in the Redend Sandstone of the Eocene Poole Formation, are well-exposed (in more ways than one).

For the technical bit .... "Iron oxides have been reprecipitated in the sandstone at various horizons in an irregular manner that does not correspond to the bedding There is liesiegang banding that has probably originated when pyrite was oxidised and iron-bearing solutions moved out from the pyrite source. The colour yellow or brown is typical of limonite or goethite, but in patches the bands are represented by a red iron oxide like hematite"

But all that doesn't stop some idiots leaving their mark

High Queue

It's a msitake to walk up Snowdon on a bank holiday monday. The queue stretched 5kms along and 800 metres up!