Another grey day on St Aldhelm's Head

[puddleshark]

Another grey day, though the rain held off for a few hours this morning, and another walk across the high ground, this time following the chalk track along St Aldhelm's Head.


Even the high ground is wet.




A small lake to cross in the dip by the quarry.

I had hoped to see hares in the fields by the track. St Aldhelm's Head is a great place to see hares in spring. But, even though a few Skylarks were singing from somewhere up in the greyness, the hares had obviously decided it is not spring yet, and made themselves scarce.


The old coastguard cottages a little ghostly in the mist.


Distant headlands.


Hountstout, where I was walking last week, lost in low cloud.






Black-backed Gulls.


Radar research monument:
THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES THE RADAR RESEARCH CARRIED OUT AT WORTH MATRAVERS FROM 1940 - 1942 WHICH WAS CRUCIAL TO THE WINNING OF THE WAR AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

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[soemand]

Radar research monument:
THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES THE RADAR RESEARCH CARRIED OUT AT WORTH MATRAVERS FROM 1940 - 1942 WHICH WAS CRUCIAL TO THE WINNING OF THE WAR AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

Wow. As a practitioner of the dark arts, RF, I'm impressed!

[puddleshark]

It must have been quite a sight, the radar research site, in the few years it was operating. But there are almost no traces of it now. Just the monument on the cliff edge.

[soemand]

I had read Arthur C. Clark’s glide path and watched the Castles in the Sky film. Both are an interesting read/watch when you have the benefit of knowing the math and techniques behind it. Also knowing the clear limitations;

[soemand]

I had read Arthur C. Clark’s glide path and watched the Castles in the Sky film. Both are an interesting read/watch when you have the benefit of knowing the math and techniques behind it. Also knowing the clear limitations; vacuum tubes and magnetrons with lifespans of hours at best, and the heat with the warm analog glow. 📡

[kotturinn]

Sensible hares!
Very atmospheric.

[puddleshark]

Poor hares. The fields are far too soggy right now for racing around having boxing matches.

I wish the weather would be a bit less atmospheric. Some gentle sunshine would be nice. :-)

[heleninwales]

The odd bird is beginning to twitter tentatively at sunrise, but it's definitely not spring yet. The photos really capture the grey weather we're having at the moment.

[puddleshark]

Thanks!

It doesn't feel at all springlike to me, but it is actually starting to sound like spring - these past few days the Dunnocks and the Great-tits have been singing away in my garden.

[loganberrybunny]

Oh yeah, the puddles just everywhere have been getting me down recently. They look very atmospheric in your photos, but they are of course a pain to walk through/around!

[puddleshark]

Yes, suddenly there are Great Lakes on all the paths, and every walk becomes an exercise in slithering along slippery banks & verges, clinging onto fences, with amazing feats of acrobatics in the gateways...