East Devon used to be a desert, where Dinosaurs with rubbish names roamed. The cliffs behind Heather are red because iron minerals oxidised under the hot sun, 200-250 million years ago. Heather is a scientist and knows about this stuff. I’m not, and don’t.
Next week we are off work and hope to spend some time paddling in east Devon, clear dry weather allowing. We don’t much rate our chances.
Hello Mark, I wish you fair weather for your week ahead. It has been very frustrating weather this winter. Good luck with the writing! :o)
Hi Mark,
thanks for the links you recently posted to my blog at ukriversguidebook.
For what it’s worth, I interviewed the coast guard rescue swimmer who basketlifted the two paddlers from the water.
By the way, how would I get an advance copy or excerpts from your forthcoming books? I’d love to link to any files you may have; lots of paddlers here stateside go to the UK for the BCU rates.
Also, I’d like to use a couple of your photos showing your dramatic coastline, if that’d be ok.
Feel like exchanging some material?
Nice blog, by the way!
Best,
Adam
Hi Mark,
thanks for the links you recently posted to my blog at ukriversguidebook.
For what it’s worth, I interviewed the coast guard rescue swimmer who basketlifted the two paddlers from the water.
By the way, how would I get an advance copy or excerpts from your forthcoming books? I’d love to link to any files you may have; lots of paddlers here stateside go to the UK for the BCU rates.
Also, I’d like to use a couple of your photos showing your dramatic coastline, if that’d be ok.
Feel like exchanging some material?
Nice blog, by the way!
Also, your top photo on this post is remarkably similar to some of the terminal moraine islands here on the US northeast coast, notably Marthas Vineyard off Cape Cod, Montauk at Long Island, New York, and Block Island off Rhode Island.
Best,
Adam
Hi Adam…we are a very long way away from having any finished material for circulation yet!
Feel free to use photos with due credit.
Best wishes,
Mark R
Will do, Mark.
If I use photos of yours such as the wreck at Cornwall, is it safe to assume all photo credits are yours?
Thanks,
Adam
Yes…photos are mine unless credited otherwise.
Best wishes,
Mark
Thanks, Mark. I’ve as of yesterday used your first shot of the wreck at Cornwall.
We’ve got a 40-year old wreck here just off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts. A cememt barge went aground on a reef. The holds burst. All the cement poured out and literally cemented the barge to the reef. What’s left now are several bulkheads and compartments, a portion of the deck, the gunwales, and finally the bottom of the barge cemented to the reef.
Good fishing there, and a fun kayaking destination. The spot’s off Westport. Ma. near the western edge of Cape Cod’s Buzzards Bay. It went aground in a storm, no negligence apparently.