Refer to this previous posting where I wax lyrical about the joys of a £600 Volvo estate. In this post we're taking a look at everything else that was happening outside the car, and the places it took us. Before we get going there's also a couple of things I wanted to touch on, plus coming goals for the website where this is cross-posted to HIVE.blog from.
A quick intro to cryptocurrencies I use every day & website update
$BTS happens to not be a Korean boy band after all, but BitShares - a cryptocurrency project and software platform with some incredibly innovative technology. Open a free named account/wallet here. (You may need to select an API node, you can go to settings and select my node 'nexus01.co.uk' ).
Further to which HIVE.blog is also originally (well, first STEEM, we won't talk of) based off BitShares 'graphene', a kind of blueprint open source codebase for BitShares-like DPoS platforms. Of course you can also fork any open-source platform and roll your own, however without having decent original code developers around to maintain and enhance, they often seem to never get far. Crypto History since 2013 has proven as much multiple times. That's why I mention and use HIVE/HBD and BitShares, they're 2 places you'll find some of the most dedicated folks in the industry. So without further justification, which is all written in the books - big shout out to those guys, and for HIVE.blog. I'm enjoying getting all this content out there finally. If you don't know HIVE.blog, it's a place you can post your own content, and you get rewards in cryptocurrency from other users upvoting you with their staked tokens.
For the website, soon you'll start seeing more blockchain features and new banners and ads for the homepage on https://newtonclassics.co.uk/ coming soon.
To the Moors
With that out the way, today it's flashback to 2 trips on Dartmoor, winter and summer. Plus a video of going for a swim in the river. Parked up looking across the valley, the river is below in this shot.
A car parking spot in the woods near the River Dart, inside Dartmoor national park, Devon, England.
A Popular Swim Spot - Spitchwick
At Spitchwick, a few weeks after my wild swim. often a great spot for wild swimming. However following some torrential rains, it wasn't looking so appealing today. Also it's coming into winter and all the leaves have fallen. It's not going to be very warm and the current is too strong.
Nice views along the upper bank pathways.
Too choppy to play in the water today
This spot can look so surprisingly different, warm inviting and calm in Spring and Summer, morphing gradually throughout Autumn into wild winter beast mode ...
Strong and fast moving water meant no go today
And what it looks like in summer ...
And here I am going for that swim back in the summertime (before the Volvo, we're jumping timelines for a moment).
Around Dartmoor
On Bel Tor car park with the Volvo
Adventure Venture Volvo Wagon
Can see for miles and miles
Below is also Spitchwick, it's surrounded by the lower and more temperate moorland. The grass is thick and spongy and you can find a lot of moss. There's also a lot of protected and renewable/managed woodland.
Woodlands around Spitchwick.
We can keep walking until the Volvo is a tiny spec, but I see rain heading in so I'm not going far this time.
Granite and Dartmoor
A lot of the national park is also active Devonshire farmland. Dartmoor has been used for farming for centuries. All these farmland walls were put together in the era when they actively mined granite as building materials. These are 'drystone' walls and can be hundreds of years old and still standing, without ever using any cement. The stones are carefully selected and placed so everything locks in. When a part does sometimes fall, it can be reconstructed and more stones can be scavenged as necessary.
You can find examples of it all over where it was used, such as London's Nelson's Column. Wikipedia has a quick summary on Dartmoor granite.
Granite walls
Pick a folk in the road, drive and enjoy the open spaces, stop anytime to take in some more views. leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photographs and memories. I can smell the air up here now.
Looking North where 40 or 50 miles of moorland stretches out before me and ends somewhere on the edge of North Devon. Dartmoor covers a landmass about the size of Bali, slap bang in the middle of Devon. It's our big sponge that makes all the things so creamy.
Dartmoor is a great big soggy sponge
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this light-hearted look back at Dartmoor and some of the scenery.
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