Ice Cream And Scallops

We headed over to Lymm after breakfast to check up on MrsB's friend Edith just back from hospital. As it was she was sadly not at home when we called, so instead we went for a walk through the woods around Lymm Dam. It was a really nice walk, and we even found a strategically placed ice cream van right near the end. My throat is slowly on the mend but this was just what the doctor ordered. It was either that or a pint.

Halfway around Lymm Dam, this was a picture I took of an odd looking sandstone outcrop. I liked the vivid contrast of it, but because of the strong colour and all the names and dates scribed into it, it looked more like an artificial concrete BMX track or something, than a natural stone outcrop. How little I knew. As usual, I checked it up online once back home.

Postscript: Seems that this sandstone formation is one of only two examples of its kind in the UK. The area is known as Lymm 'Bluff' and has two important features: The first are called the 'Nye' Channels which are the rills etched into the rock from sub glacial erosion by meltwater; The second, known as 'Scallops', are a series of rounded steps eroded in the vertical sections of rock. All this happened it seems during the last (Devensian) glaciation period 10,000 to 13,000 years ago.