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Heathland is attractive but totally missing from the Eastern US I think. I've heard it exists in the PNW, but I would be hard pressed to find it around here.
Do you have any pics of the areas of England known as moors? I think I would like that. Reminds me of "An American Werewolf in London" (I know I'm dating myself).
Moors are like a wet and cold version of heathland, pretty much the only thing that grows there is heather. They exist at altitude in Devon and Cornwall, and also in northern England.
Moors are like a wet and cold version of heathland. They exist at altitude in Devon and Cornwall, and also in northern England.
Typical heathland (Surrey)
Typical moor (Devon)
Is it very green in summer or winter? How bout low level fog hugging the ground in winter or summer? I find it kind of unique and attractive since we don't have anything like that around here.
Moors are like a wet and cold version of heathland, pretty much the only thing that grows there is heather. They exist at altitude in Devon and Cornwall, and also in northern England.
Typical heathland (Surrey)
Typical moor (Devon)
And don't forget "cold" is relative to what you are used to. Those moors would be quite mild to me in winter I'm sure.
Is it very green in summer or winter? How bout low level fog hugging the ground in winter or summer? I find it kind of unique and attractive since we don't have anything like that around here.
Fog, snow and frost are common on moorland in winter. You'd have to ask ben86 or dunno, I think they live close to that kind of environment.
It is still very unique to me and I'm interested in seeing it in person.
I'd choose heath every time; it's warmer and drier, there's a much larger variety of plants and trees, and it's where you're most likely to see the UKs reptile species such as adders, grass snakes, sand lizards, and the very rare slow worm.
Heathland is attractive but totally missing from the Eastern US I think. I've heard it exists in the PNW, but I would be hard pressed to find it around here.
Do you have any pics of the areas of England known as moors? I think I would like that. Reminds me of "An American Werewolf in London" (I know I'm dating myself).
Here's the North Yorkshire Moors.
Here's some Heathland just 5 miles from here.
It's obviously quite a bit cooler on the Moors, but it's a really lovely place. The Heathland, which is called Strensall Common, is lovely, but I prefer the hills and mountains of the Moors and Dales. Heathland can't come close to the Yorkshire Dales imo. It's a bit flat and boring.
That heathland looks far more Australian than NE US. It actually reminds me of central Qld, if you replace the birches with eucalyptus (at first glance, the wooded area in the distance actually looks like eucalyptus trees lit up by low sun).m
It's obviously quite a bit cooler on the Moors, but it's a really lovely place. The Heathland, which is called Strensall Common, is lovely, but I prefer the hills and mountains of the Moors and Dales. Heathland can't come close to the Yorkshire Dales imo. It's a bit flat and boring.
Thanks for the photos. I'm with you, I think I would like the moors better. More interesting to me topo wise and the look so diff from here.
That heathland looks far more Australian than NE US. It actually reminds me of central Qld, if you replace the birches with eucalyptus (at first glance, the wooded area in the distance actually looks like eucalyptus trees lit up by low sun).m
Emerald, Qld.
Interesting and yes looks more like Aus than here. But your rainfall is only 20" a year while here it is more than double that which is part of the reason I think.
I don't think anywhere in the NE US looks like Australia. Far too temperate there I think. But England had some areas to my eyes that looked similar to places around here.
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