Friday, 27 August 2010

The pools of the past

Haytor Quarry is pretty close to home, yet I've never swum in the pools there. Although it was a dull day, the Moor was colourful, with great splodges of yellow and purple. The quarry is a little sheltered world, a poignant reminder of times past when granite from here was used in such illustrious buildings as the British Museum and London Bridge. There are three pools, attractively accessorised with lily pads and rushes.

3 comments:

AquaMarina said...

beautiful - was it chilly?

Sophie said...

Amazingly not! It is sheltered in the quarry, and the water has had a chance to heat up (relatively speaking!) over the summer.

AquaMarina said...

mmmmm looks and sounds blissful, when I'm in a place like that I find it very hard to get out....