We had a lovely couple of days out and about in Purbeck recently, and for the first time in a while there was blue sky and sunshine, perfect for walking,( just a bit cold!) On Wednesday we parked at Worth Matravers, a village that still looks like something straight out of a Thomas Hardy novel, and had a three mile walk out to the coast at Chapman's Pool, along to St Aldhelms Head and back. As we've had such mild weather this winter so far the biting cold wind today came as a bit of a shock to the system but never mind it blew away the cobwebs that's for sure!
The rolling green lush countryside of Dorset.
Chapman's Pool.
As it was so clear, there were fantastic views along the coast today.
Out of nowhere came a short sharp shower, and a perfect rainbow.
The end of the rainbow seemed to be somewhere over Worth Matravers, I wonder if anyone was lucky enough to have found the pot of gold?
We walked on past the quarry and along the track back to the car, with no sign of a pot of gold anywhere!
On Thursday we had another beach walk at Studland. It was again ideal weather but a little less cold than yesterday in the wind.
The sea was a quite high but still two hours from high tide.
Bournemouth way off in the distance.
Looking towards Old Harry Rocks.
From the dunes.
We had a brief look round part of the nature reserve behind the sand dunes, but as we didn't have a lot of time this is somewhere we will definitely return to another day.
