North Pole and back

Well North light anyway!

One of the staff, Shelley who works in the restaurant, came with us for the morning as we explored northwards up the main track going over to the east side from time to time to look at the tors

We would like to have found basalt dykes cutting through the granite but didn't. however we did find quite a lot of aplite dykes, and found out that the stiles in the Quarter-, Halfway- and Three-quarter-walls are made of slabs of slate from the old billiard table from the Tavern.

We eventually found some mafic dykes down the steps towards the North light, and then some more as we wound our way back down the west side of the island. Phew. They are rather brown and weathered up at this level though and don't show up so well as they do from the sea.

By the time we got to Battery Point though everyone was too footsore and weary to go down to see the dyke I know is there and we took ourselves back to the Barn and a welcome cuppa.

We did see some of the Sika deer though