Discharge

A final shot of the Black Rabbit Before heading over the hill.

It was at this point that things started to go awry. GF had just take a picture and the camera shutdown - "Replace Battery".

No problem, GF had three packs of 4 rechargeable batteries. The only trouble is that this is a misnomer. They should be called dischargeble batteries. All were fully charged a few weeks back, none had been used, and not one set would fire up the camera.

Nobody could accuse GF of being unprepared. He opened his rucksack and stowed the camera, whilst retrieving his other camera from the bag.


Having headed up over the hill towards South Stoke, Gorse Fox again left the road to pick up the foot path down towards the river. South Stoke was framed ahead... and captured on the camera (which promptly beeped and shutdown). "Change Battery Pack".

Gorse Fox retrieved the spare battery pack for this camera. Nada. The camera wouldn't even boot up. And so it came to pass that the few photos taken for the rest of the walk were taken with his mobile phone's camera.