The second half of our Dorset break began with yet more unseasonably warm, sunny weather. So warm in fact that as we strolled along the seafront in Lyme Regis strange and long forgotten thoughts began to surface in my mind. Admittedly they had a job to push through the overriding Read more…
We’ve had a busy old summer this year exploring Scotland in our self-built campervan and as brilliant as it’s been, when it came to our winter break we fancied something a whole lot less complicated. Waking up in a different place each morning was an amazing experience but with the Read more…
A sunny start on Sunday morning meant an early rise for us not least because of the added energy it seemed to have provided to the dawn chorus. Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock and even a flock of Herring Gulls all leant their voices to what was surely a Read more…
Trying to judge the weather for a trip away is very much like backing a horse. You study previous form, expert advice and can even have some one on one time with the beast itself, but when push comes to shove you normally end up just taking a punt based Read more…
I couldn’t finish off my Dorset series of posts without the promised look at the numerous in situ fossils that can be found along the Jurassic coast. Walking west from Lyme Regis you soon arrive at several large expanses of flat rock that are absolutely rammed full of fossil Ammonites. Read more…
On Saturday we woke early and by nine were already parked up in the small coastal village of Seatown in preparation for the days walk. Our destination was to be the top of Golden Cap, the tallest point on the south coast of England at 191 metres and a landmark Read more…
Plummeting temperatures and the end of a fortnights glorious sunshine coincided perfectly last week with our first camping trip of the year. Our destination for the long Easter weekend was to be Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a location famed worldwide for its fossil giving cliffs and spectacular scenery. Read more…
In a perfectly timed piece of choreography a Purple Heron turned up at Kenfig NNR on Friday, almost as if it knew that the local birding fraternity would need something to keep themselves occupied with over the long weekend. I would have been there in a flash if not for Read more…
I spent several days in the fabulous Dorset countryside a few weeks ago, based primarily around the coastal village of Lyme Regis. For those that don’t know Lyme Regis is the best fossil hunting location in the country with cliffs that basically form a large conveyor belt bringing new specimens Read more…