After a pretty sedentary week it was time to get moving today We had a trip to Swanage planned and on the way we stopped off in the Purbeck Hills for a walk to find a geocache near Grange Arch a fantastic folly. The folly was built in 1746 by Denis Bond, the owner of Creech Grange, to give the impression of the ruin of an ancient castle when viewed from the house below. The arch was given to the National Trust by the Bond family in 1942.
Grange Arch.
Looking down towards Creech Grange
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It's funny the things you find in the middle of nowhere, but I'm glad we did.
We found the cache easily, admired the view and watched farmers in tractors far below who were hay making before returning for lunch.
In the evening we had a walk at Durlston Country Park as it was too nice to drive straight home. We heard and saw many different birds, the highlights being, Kestrels, fulmars, black backed gulls, cormorants, a peregrine falcon and guillemots (lots and lots of). The guillemots nest on the cliffs below the country park and there were many of them flying around, sitting on a large ledge and floating around on the sea - brilliant.
The lighthouse at Anvil Point.
The Tilly Whim Caves.
Guillemots on a ledge.
and on the sea.
Evening light along the coast.
The Great Globe in the Country Park is one of the largest stone spheres in the world, it is constructed of Portland Stone, weighs about 40 tonnes and is 3 metres in diameter.
The Globe was constucted in 15 segments in 1887 in Greenwich and brought to Durlston by sea.
Looking towards Peveril Point and Old Harry Rocks.
On the way home, a field of cereal at Kingston in one direction and in the other....
an eerie looking Corfe Castle.
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