Bite-Size Blog Post #72 - Bowerman's Nose

18 May

So Close

It wasn’t that long ago that I last photographed Bowerman’s Nose, but as I wrote in that previous blog post, it’s a special location and one that I know I’ll continue to return to. In fact, now that we’re into May, the sun begins to rise from a direction that illuminates a completely different side of Bowerman’s Nose, so I expect there will be another blog post, or perhaps even a video before too long.

This time I was back at Bowerman’s Nose with a different friend. We’d spent the evening exploring around the Haytor area, visiting locations such as the red barn at Emsworthy and Emsworthy Tor itself. After some careful contemplation over a doughnut, we decided that Bowerman’s Nose would be the ideal place to wait for sunrise.

The conditions were looking very promising. Most exciting of all was the sky; heavy, brooding, and full of texture. If there was just enough of a gap near the horizon for the sunlight to slip beneath the cloud, we might be treated to something truly special.

As we waited for the sun to edge closer to the horizon, eating more doughnuts, we watched the sky anxiously. Minute by minute, the gap where the sun might break through became smaller and smaller until it disappeared altogether. We’d come so close to witnessing something remarkable, but in the end it simply wasn’t to be.

Still, we weren’t disappointed. Time spent with friends is never wasted, especially when doughnuts are involved, and a visit to Bowerman’s Nose is always a pleasure.