BURN ON THE BANK

Headed east & up Sutton Bank this afternoon, what a change from yesterdays rain, I actually managed to get sunburnt on my forehead, the photo shows Gormire Lake.

Gormire is one of the few truly natural lakes in Yorkshire. It is roughly semicircular in shape with a diameter of about ¼mile running along the bottom of the escarpment. Gormire Rigg is a glacial feature creating a bowl shape behind the lake. There are no streams in or out of the lake, but springs emerge on the far side of Gormire Rigg near High Cleaves Farm (centre). The lake is almost surrounded by the dense forest of Garbutt Wood.

As we headed home the blue sky started to turn black, stopped in Harrogate for Fish & Chips and was told we had just missed another downpour of biblical proportion, bet my luck doesn't hold for tomorrow though!