Exploring the Moors

I'm tired and kinda sick today so this one's gonna be mostly pictures. Some background: hiking in Dartmoor National Park (best known as the setting for Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.) The weather was quite nice, not very mysterious, but we got a few decent pictures.

The landscape was incredibly desolate. Fun fact: a prison was built on the moors long ago. This was a highly effective location, as any escape attempts would end with the escapee getting lost and eventually starving on the moors. 

These little birds (ravens?) have been all over the place in England. Whatever they are, they always seem to be strutting around with attitude.

Statue at the visitor's center. Sherlock here is way too cool to pay attention to demon hounds, even ones that look like they're about to eat his butt off.

An ancient stone cross. Nobody really knows anything more about it than that. It's one of those things that's kinda just always been there.

A random stone circle out in the middle of nowhere. Very mysterious and peaceful, and unlike Stonehenge, one of its more famous cousins, not crowded with hippies.

Horsies! All sorts of livestock, mainly sheep, cows and horses, wander the moors.

An ancient stone bridge. These things were everywhere.

And literally just on the edge of the moors, as though somebody had drawn a line around the edge of them, it was all bluebells and rivers and green pastures full of sheep.