Old Photo's of Dartmoor

Hi all, just been surfing the net and came across this site:
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/dartmoor.t ... phers.html which contain's stacks of old Dartmoor photo's, by various photographers.

This is a good link: http://pallas.ex.ac.uk/dartmoor/collect ... on=Burnard

Though you might want to take a peek out of interest.

Dizzy

Thanks for that - will keep me amused between customers at the shop today - I imagine another quiet day with this torrential rain. It better ease off by tomorrow when I want to get out on the Moors!

Hi Jo, it looks like tomorrow might be ok for ther weather on the moors, check this link for the Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ ... ather.html
I'm hoping to head out to Cox Tor for a change, as I've planned a walk for that area with loads of boxes! I've typed out the clues in Word ready if you want them.

Dizzy

No customers as yet - so plenty of time for checking in on the forum! Haven't got my Dartmoor Map with me - how remiss! So no idea where Cox Tor is - probably a long way from North Devon!! Was hoping to get to Doe, Brat and Arms Tor area tomorrow, and yes the forecasts seem to have moved on to 'Light Showers' rather than torrential rain - so might be lucky.
Thanks for the offer of clues - will bear that in mind - swaps of typed in clues on Word might be a good idea on here - it does take a long time to transfer them word by word from the clue book. And yes I have already ploughed through the book for Doe, Brat and Arms Tor. Mind having typed them in - you are a bit more familiar with the 'landmarks' you are supposed to be looking for!!
Been and bought myself a whistle today - having read about carrying one on the forum - will be Ok if I get lost in the fog tomorrow!!
Be Lucky on Cox Tor!

Well what a wash out! Rain, Rain and more rain So much for the forecast of light showers. I kept hoping it would blow over as I crouched away from the worst of it, behind a boulder under my tiny stamping up umbrella. NOT I hasten to add stamping up - there was very little of that going on - my clues were being blown about, my compass was all wet - and in the end I gave up! I guess I will be venturing off to Brat, Arms and Doe Tor again some time!
AND to add insult to injury - I came home with a tick! I find coating the little blighters in vaseline helps - they eventually loose their grip or their will to live and then just come off.

Sorry to hear that Jo, there will be another time with better weather.

Ellagirl and I ventured up to Cox Tor today only to find that I also got completely soaked and completly engulfed in low cloud, and then headed back to Barn Hill car park. After sitting in the car for half an hour the weather cleared up a little but not over the Cox Tor area. So we decided to visit Feather Tor and Pew Tor seeing as this is on lower land and out of the clouds!
We ended up finding 22 boxes considering that for part of the morning it rained heavy on the odd occassion, but fortunately dryed up as the morning prgressed. All in all a distance of 7 1/4 miles over boggy rain soak land, but we fully enjoyed it. I'm sure there are many more boxes around that area, however time got the better of us.

No sheep ticks today, fortunately!

Dizzy

Have just been doing some research on ticks and found the following bit of information:

"Do not use chemicals such as alcohol, nail polish remover or petroleum jelly to ticks before removal as these substances can increase the risk of infection by stimulating the tick to regurgitate saliva into the wound. "

Nasty - so ignore previous comments about the effectiveness of vaseline, I shan't be using it again!

I always use vaseline to remove the tick and then daub the area with savlon. I've never had an infection.

What did this 'research' produce as a way of non-chemical removal.

The research - which was a bit stomach churning - suggested twisting off anti-clockwise with special tick tweezers - apparently available from chemists. This will sometimes leave the head buried - but once the main body has been removed - there is no risk of infection from the various diseases. These seem to be carried in the contents of the ticks stomach - hence trying to avoid anything which will aggravate the little beast - chemicals, heat etc - which could in turn cause the stomach contents to end up in your skin! Nice topic of conversation!!

Hope this helps - I just typed Sheep Tick into Google and then read through the first few articles that came up - enough to put anyone off venturing onto Dartmoor ever again!!

Bring back sheep dip - that's what kills the little buggars!

I think the most ticks I had was 9

The pictures are somewhat cool (3D) though nasty looking

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art ... ick3d.html

Good idea but I personally prefer Radox in my bath water!