Bogmin

And during these last two weeks, my office has been moved daily between a soggy selection of Bodmin Moor's finest valley mires.  I hadn't appreciated how floating a floating bog actually is.  Or how easily you can sink through the floating bit.  Quite a skill to walk across and keep your feet dry.  I'm getting there.  And am indebted to my yellow wellies.

A floating bog, with five metres of peat and water underneath in parts.

A floating valley mire in the distance, in a beautiful valley, looking down from Rough Tor, Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall.

Boggy bogs

These last few weeks I've been paid to wander across the bogs, heaths and grasslands of Exmoor National Park, recording the changing vegetation types and the varying peatland characteristics, in the sunshine.  Thank you, job.  Thank you, fortuitous Indian Summer.

So much sunshine.  Four different days at four different sites across the stunning Exmoor National Park, Somerset and Devon, the southwest.