View of the Blackmore Vale off Bulbarrow, Dorset

[Matthew Arnold]

Whilst waiting for volunteers to turn up (none did) we took some pictures of the Blackmore Vale. It was taken at about 10 am just before we left. I've seen the whole vale covered in a vale of mist from Bulbarrow. But i found these particularly atmospheric as you can see the tops of trees just poking above the veil and the top of Duncliffe Wood rising like a mountain above the surrounding floodplains.

[chris cnc]

nice view!

[Matthew Arnold]

Its better on a clear day with blue skies. We can see 5 counties from a site just round the corner from where we were.

[tommer9]

Lovely part of the country. I grew up in Dorset, nr wimborne.

[Matthew Arnold]

Im Blandford born and bred. Lived in the town for 21 years so i know the area very well. And all of the little cut through lanes that we have access to as we drive around in marked up council vehicles.

[PeteB]

Cracking view and you get paid too.

 

I'd shame the volunteers for not getting up to see that view!

[Matthew Arnold]

Ye it is an ass when we advertise it and no sod turns up. We decided to make a morning of it so we went and cleared a blocked culvert as the water was on the verge of coming over the old railway path which is about 4 foot above the base of the ditch.

[APC]

I'd love to work on Cranborne Chase. Ideal job. Fooking well proper nice part of the country. Feels so much less touristy than the rest of the countryside in Dorset, except maybe the backlanes around Kimmeridge in the winter.

[Matthew Arnold]

We are working in an even more remote place than where i took the pictures tomorrow. It is 30 mins drive (on a good day) from the nearest town (Dorchester) and 45 mins from our base in Blandford. The roads to the site are single track roads with few passing places and high blind banks. Great fun in the winter. Not so much fun when tractors use it on a regular basis. When we did the Autumn check for wasp nests, etc. On the way back we met a combine coming around the corner. Luckily we stopped and shot into a gateway about 20 metres back.

[APC]

We are working in an even more remote place than where i took the pictures tomorrow. It is 30 mins drive (on a good day) from the nearest town (Dorchester) and 45 mins from our base in Blandford. The roads to the site are single track roads with few passing places and high blind banks. Great fun in the winter. Not so much fun when tractors use it on a regular basis. When we did the Autumn check for wasp nests, etc. On the way back we met a combine coming around the corner. Luckily we stopped and shot into a gateway about 20 metres back.

 

 

Hilfield?