WEST BECK.........A beck is a stream, this one running from the moors above Goathland down to Beck Hole. The water is very acidic being heavily laden with peat. My last day for a while in the area so off early tourist dodging to Mallyan Spout. A Spout is a Waterfall..... Am I still in England?
This Spout is around sixty feet high and quite beautiful. The gorge it discharges into is almost tropical in the abundance of it's vegetation. Only needs a parrot or two, maybe a leach or piranha and I could be in the Amazon.
MALLYAN SPOUT
AND AGAIN.......This is the better view point but unfortunately a tree branch obscures the full height, nothing a bow saw and a lumberjack couldn't sort out.
WEST BECK........and two more views, I was hoping to see a Green Woodpecker again but no such luck, just water, more water and vegetation.
That's all but before I go I will pass on a comment from the Telegraph letters page. A sign on a plastic container recycling skip. 'SQUASH* BOTTLES FIRST' Why? And how can they tell?
*Squash in the UK is a concentrated fruit juice one dilutes with water.
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