A couple of posts ago I wrote about Lydford Gorge and how it’s been split in two by the raging waters of the winter. This post is “the other end” which was once the main start point for a walk through the gorge. A new bridge (above) now spans the river Lyd, to take walkers over the river to join the track that that allows access up-stream to the “Devils Cauldron”. I remember visiting this when I was young. In those days one had to walk along a wide plank, suspended over the “cauldron” by two chains. It was an adventure for a 10 year old! These days, heath and safety has kicked in, so there is a rigid metal gantry with side panels and a cage arrangement, one could get a string quartet set up in there, however the view is the same, if not the experience.
Down in there it’s easy to imagine being an explorer in deepest Borneo, while still in sedate Devon. The cauldron is a pothole through which the river Lyd flows, sometime at speed and with a roar. The gorge at this point contains temperate rainforest! A newer edition is a path that takes the walker further up the gorge, under the bridge that carries the road into the car park, and out to a pond
All of the images above were taken with my phone. Space was tight, and setting up a tripod not the best idea. I took my Hasselblad kit with me too, and as the path opened up and levelled out I made three photo’s on the first of my colour 120 film – Fuji 400H Pro.
None of the images here are going to win any prizes, but I enjoyed pottering about making them.
Chatter: Motorola 13 phone / Hasselblad 501CM with 80mm lens and Fuji 400H, lab developed, home scanned.
S.H.O.U.T. 