We popped out to Dartmoor yesterday as JC wanted to photograph a waterfall on Shavercombe Brook and see Deadman's Bottom on Langcombe Brook. We parked up at the Ditsworthy car park, noting quite a few school minibuses - it's Ten Tors training season - and walked down to the Warren House bumping into a teacher from Kingsbridge who was setting up his tent in advance of his school kids joining later.
To get to the waterfall we had to cross the Plym, which turned out to be a lot harder than we'd expected. Perhaps the river was higher than usual but we weren't confident in getting across it safely so we stayed on the north side. (Those stones are further apart than they look!).
We walked east to the Plym Steps but realised that we didn't really have time to cross over and find the Deadman's Bottom, so circled back around Higher Hartor Tor and had a photo session around the standing stones of Giant's Basin.
As the sun set the temperature dropped by about 10 degrees. I started doing laps of the stones to keep warm, and, as the sky turned red, we headed back to the car.
En route, we encountered a Ten Tors tent village (the car park suggested Exmouth Community College were also there) and the kids were enjoying their dry, light-wind campsite. I was on planet-spot watch again and, as I have done most nights this week already, easily found Venus (just to the north/east of the beautiful crescent moon) and Jupiter and Mars further across the sky.
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