Autumn colours along the River Barle

No sunrise shoot this morning as the weather forecast was for fog - so a bit of a welcome lie in! 

After breakfast we headed over to Tarr Steps (see extra), a clapper bridge over the River Barle, possibly dating back to 1000 BC. The bridge is 180 feet long and has 17 spans. Each stone slab weighs approximately two tons each! Amazing then that half of the bridge was washed away in December 2012 when there was exceptionally heavy rain - the force of nature is just incredible! According to local legend the Devil built the bridge and has sunbathing rights on its stones and anyone that tried to cross it would be killed. 

After a coffee stop in Dulverton we photographed the beech trees just north of the village before heading back to the River Barle upstream of Tarr Steps. A walk down a steep track brought us to the river bank (wasn't looking forward to the climb back up)! The colours were gorgeous and provided an idyllic spot to eat our packed lunch before getting some long exposures of the waterfalls - see blip.

Back to the hotel and a break to shower and rest before our next critique session. Today it was my turn to show ten of my images - something I always dread doing but it's a positive experience with constructive feedback. 

Another fabulous dinner (the meals are excellent here) before, as Peter Hendrie put it in his itinerary "some of us retire for the evening whilst a few propped up the bar until the early hours).  I may have been in the latter few! ;-))