I spent last weekend with some friends in a cottage near Corfe Castle in Dorset. Admittedly, most of the weekend was a fairly lazy one (lots of eating and drinking). On Sunday afternoon, after taking the steam train to Swanage, Ruth (my girlfriend) and I departed from the our group and set off to walk back to the cottage via the coast (about 8miles or so). What we lacked in organisation, we made up for in determination (we had to buy a new map and a bottle of water!) we made good progress getting away from Swanage and away from the busy section of the coastal path. We wended our way around the wooded area of Durleston Country and out onto the open downland which made up most of the rest of the walk.
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| Sea view from Durleston Park |
The weather was fantastic, nice and sunny although fairly windy and the scenery of this part of Dorset's Jurrasic oast was fabulous - with grassy slopes tumbling down to sheer cliffs. We saw plenty of sea birds - lots of cormorants making their way up and down coast skimming low above the water.
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| Good example of a Jurrasic Ammonite - or remains of! |
It took us about 4hours to do the walk - as you can imagine, it was fairly up and
down and lots of wriggling about along the coast - so it could have been a bit further than 8miles.
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| Me - with the scenic coastline |
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