We haven't had many warm sunny days yet this summer, however today was most definitely one of them - but with a nice breeze (which later on was very welcome when we were climbing back off of the beach). We parked on the outskirts of Worth Matravers and walked across a couple of large fields of crops before getting to the sea. I hope I've got this right, I can never remember which cereal is which!
A fantastic field of wheat?
with the odd bit of barley? thrown in!
The farmer has kindly kept a wide footpath through the middle of the fields.
And so to the coast.
Chapman's Pool, for information see here
The cliffs above the beach, taken from the footpath about halfway down to the beach. It was a long way down and it was even further coming back up!!!!!!
Dorset certainly has some out of the way, quiet and lovely places.
Chapman's Pool, almost there.
There were only about half a dozen people on the whole beach. It was a fascinating place to spend an afternoon mooching around and exploring.
There were plenty of fossils in the rocks, like this ammonite.
A nice place to paddle then sit in the sun for a while. Then we had to climb back up, and it was too hot a day for that, so there was a fair amount of moaning!
Back on the cliff top we saw this plaque set into the dry stone wall, we saw some of these a little while back when we walked in the opposite direction to Chapman's Pool, this one says 'stones lean together'. Nice.
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