Horrible day outside "Dartmoor Mist".

[Dave 54]

Well it was one of those weekends you didn't want to do pond maintenance on and we got it.
Saturday arrived and along with it came a Dartmoor mist so ny thoughts were giv it till midday and it'll have burnt off , no such chance it just clung and clung.
Sunday talk avout groundhog day but today was a retake of yesterday exept today I was the mug out in it,
For those of you who dont know your mist , a Dartmoor mist is one that blankets and seems to penitrate everywhere and everything and your soaked to the skin yet you dont know it till you step indoors .
Well thats how I feel right about now,

Dave

 

[j.w]

Sounds spooky Dave

 

[Mmathis]

Oooh, sound like something from a horror film!

 

[Big Lou]

Reminds me of my time living in Scotland. Loved every minute of it. Now here in America we have suh mists. In the marshy wetlands of the deep south Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia have dense mists during certain times of the year. Not ordinary fog. Mist so thick a person can easily lose their way. To be in those wetlands is magical. As a boy my father and later my brother taught me how to safely navigate in such. Land navigating in the Army was such a breeze for me. Loved it.

 

[callingcolleen1]

we can sometimes get some pretty thick fog here too but not lately. Usually we get thick fog in fall and sometimes early spring too. It usually goes away here by mid morning. Driving in the thick fog is bad sometimes too. Have not had any fog yet this spring and it has been nice and sunny today. Fog that never ends can be depressing, hang in there Dave!

 

[Andy41]

Sounds like a real "hound of the Baskervills" mist And if it's like that where you are imagine what it's like at Princetown!

If it's any consolation it rained all day yesterday and today is thick mist. On the plus side i got to work on the pond on Saturday and found a small leak in the waterfall

Hope you're both well....

cheers,

Andy.

 

[Dave 54]

Sounds like a real "hound of the Baskervills" mist And if it's like that where you are imagine what it's like at Princetown!

If it's any consolation it rained all day yesterday and today is thick mist. On the plus side i got to work on the pond on Saturday and found a small leak in the waterfall

Hope you're both well....

cheers,

Andy.

We could hear the hound baying from here mate
Yes its not very often we get them, if your out on the moors then forget it you can even see an inch in front of your face the stunted forests of the moor look beautiful and mystic with cobwebs hanging like syrings of pearl "my memorys of taking HMS Raleigh trainee's up there each weekend ", but not a day to linger .......better by a blazing fire in the Plume of Feathers methinks

Dave

 

[j.w]

We get it here also and can be really bad at times especially on the freeways but so pretty also in the quiet of the country.

 

[Big Lou]

Beautiful scene JW.

 

[haver79]

Great pic JW!

 

[Catfishnut]

About 28 years ago, a buddy and I got caught out on the river in a similar mist / fog. It was a perfectly sunny and warm summer day in the mid of June, but clouds started rolling in on us and closed all around and the temp dropped from 70's to 40's in a matter of a few hours. We could barely see 500 feet up or down river and then the wind started to blow, too. We were oaring like mad to keep the boat going downstream.

We didn't know it, but my two older brothers were taking a boat trip down the same day. They had a much larger boat, three times the size of ours with oar lengths to match. Their boat caught the wind moreso so they were struggling to make headway against the wind going downstream. They adopted an oaring system where both of them worked the oars together, each one facing eachother and when one brother would pull on the oars the other brother would push and then reverse for the back stroke.

They eventually caught up to us. What we saw from our boat appeared to be a Viking Ship with huge oars emerging from the foggy mist and what looked like some weird two piston engine driving the oars from inside the boat! We referred to it as the push-me-pull-you motor.

That was the interesting and fun thing about the trip. The crappy thing was that no one was dressed for the weather. We expected 70 - 80 degree temps and sunny. Turned out to be misty, foggy wet, blowing and 44-48 degrees. The mist was so dense that you could not see the position of the sun at midday.

Gordy

 

[Catfishnut]

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