Some are smeared in white clay, trailing vines and feathers.
TO reach their family's weekend home, Rachel Franklin, 14, and her brother, Speed, 16, love to climb into the back of their parents' Ford F-250 for the last quarter mile up a rutted clay trail that was once a logging road.
It probably was great fun most days, but heavy rains the previous week had left the "well-maintained clay trail," as the brochure put it, tacky and gooey, and our three riders, beginners like myself, slid hither and thither over the bumpy terrain.
They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay bush trails.
Soil texture was analyzed using the Bouyoucos hydrometer method and was determined to be clay loam along the trails.
However it is not an obligate lithophyte, and can colonise recently dug clay soil banks by trail sides, and indeed the largest population observed was along the coastal trail toward the subterranean river cave entrance.
Certain images keep glimmering in the dark when I close my eyes: fragments of white china clay scattered as a trail across the bogs of Dartmoor; marker stones on Bodmin guiding a parson safely around his parish; posts sticking up from the water in the monochrome mirror-world of flooded Doggerland where the narrow "Broomway" leads out to Foulness.
Twenty traps were set up along five parallel trails on the clay soil plot (totaling 100 traps), and fifteen along four parallel trails on the sandy soil plot (totaling 60 traps) [22].
On red clay in Rio, Gustavo Kuerten trailed by two sets to one against Karim Alami of Morocco.
Many of the trails, lakes and clay-licks are located inside the TNR, and access is only possible having paid an entrance fee.
