The Moors of Devon... (day two)

After a nights rest at the inn, we got up to a bit of a sketchy morning weather wise, but Penny (Lance's sister) was leading the charge to get us to the moors, so we set off to meet up with her in Bovey Tracey, on the edge of the park. After touring the House of Marbles, which was a combination art gallery and museum to marble manufacturing through the ages...pretty interesting actually... we set off for Hay Torr in the Moor. Following Penny and Lance through the tiny roads winding through hedges. You literally can't see anywhere from the car. Just a wall of vegetation speeding by.



Climbing up into the park it got foggy. Felt about right for my images in my mind of the moor. We set off for the Torr, which is one of the big rocks atop the hills of the moor. I couldn't see very far, but my impression of the moor was a very cool place to strap on a backpack and go wander for a few days, camping out under the stars where people have done the same thing since prehistoric time. Lots of prehistoric rock stacks and lines and stone circles exist in the moors. Plus castles and Roman ruins.



Otherwise, the walk up the moor is like walking on short shorn golf course grass, with patches of ferns and rocks scattered around. And big cow and wild horse pies all around at the top. Once we got to the top rock, Lance, Lori, Marina and Elena and I walked up the big Torr as far as we could go. There was actually steps worn into it.



Lance went the rest of the way to the top, and took along his umbrella to signify himself in the fog for the photo.



After hiking around the moor and playing in the rocks for a long while, we got back to the cars and Penny led us to a real Devon cream tea at a village called Lustleigh. It was a beautiful little out of the way village, with one pub and one tea house. After the major tea session, we walked around the village. Some really cool cottages there, including this one behind my mom and Penny which probably would sell for $4M+..... home sweet home.