Stampede!

Colourful Mai returned from Kenya saturday so we met up for a walk. All my local blippers have posted photographs of Fernworthy Reservoir, low water levels mean two old bridges have been exposed for the first time in I believe decades! mydartmoorwalks,  Gilesey and Lumpysimon have already posted photos of it so do  look at theirs!
We had a lovely drive over Dartmoor looking so good in the autumnal sunshine, and by the time we arrived I had heard all about her fantastic holiday. Just as we got close to the reservoir we saw these sheep - just had to stop! They actually ran in front of my car and up the road as I stood and watched them with glee! 
The reservoir was quite a place, the damn reminded me of an Aztec temple, although Mai assured me they had never made it as far as Dartmoor! The exposed bed of the reservoir reminded me of some African or maybe Australian or New Zealand parched landscape, and there was a  dead tree exposed standing in the water and more  rising from the exposed mud with dried moss hanging from their branches like some kind of fearsome creature!  It wasn't actually that muddy as in wet, but of course Mai and I found the parts that were and squelched our way through it! 
The bridge came into view as did all the people who had taken the short walk to it rather than the long way round the reservoir we had walked to it! I had to laugh at two excited puffballs of dog - when I said they would need some washing the male owner said not by him! They were obviously the wife's dogs! 
Back at the carpark I laid on the fallen leaves to take photos of them before heading home - just time to drop Mai and change then off to the allotment to jab Felicity once more and put them to bed - seems so strange to be home so early with the chickens already settled and a whole evening stretching before me - means I now eat at a decent time though!