Take A Hike Around A Pristine Reservoir In The Corner Of England
To get to Burrator, we drove about 20 to 30 minutes outside of Plymouth.
As per usual the weather was gray, but the Reservoir is so massive and impressive it didn't matter.
Plus, the sun constantly made attempts to peak through so the clouds were interesting to watch.
The reservoir was built by Edward Sandeman, Plymouth's water engineer, and completed in 1898.
Today the reservoir is about 150 acres.
The Burrator Dam (pictured) was first built in August of 1893. There's also the Sheepstor Dam.
The trail around the reservoir is about 3.5 miles long.
We arrived as everything was just beginning to bloom.
A lot of the land on the way to Burrator looks like the mostly treeless English moors. Since Burrator is a national park, however, there are forests planted all around the Reservoir.
The point is to get people hiking and wildlife hanging out in the area (we saw small ponies and sheep, for the record).
Bicycling is also allowed, as is horse riding.
If you want to fish, however, you need a permit.
That's Sean Harrison, master distiller at Plymouth Gin, demonstrating how pure Burrator's water is.
Since we didn't have fishing permits we did the next best thing.
Rubber duck racing.
Apparently people do that in the U.K. for charity events and whatnot (she's waiting to catch the ducks).
To be fair, when everything looks like this it doesn't matter what you're doing.
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