Cow and Calf

On Ilkla Moor Baht'at

Thursday 28th May 2015

We set off today to visit RHS Harlow Carr Gardens at Harrogate. We arrived at Harlow Carr to find not only was the car park full, but so too was the reserve parking and it began to rain - disaster, try plan B - we didn't have one! We decided to carry on and drive to Otley, and Ilkley. Lunch was taken at the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor. This is a millstone grit outcrop on the edge of the moor. Legend has it that the giant Rombald was escaping from his wife and stood on the edge of the outcrop, splitting the calf (large boulder) from it's mother (larger rock with man abseiling near top). So there I was up on Ilkley Moor taking this photograph wind blowing strong, about to rain, and me without a hat!