With the Jurassic Coast filling with visitors for the busy summer season, new deckchairs, windbreaks and beach shelters are appearing on the beach near the Hive Beach Café, Burton Bradstock in West Dorset. Each carries a simple safety message about the shifting nature of this stunning coastline, reminding visitors to take care where they sit…
Natural England has revealed plans for improvements to the South West Coast Path between Lyme Regis and Rufus Castle on the Isle of Portland. The proposed 67km route would connect with the section between Rufus Castle and Lulworth Cove, where work is currently underway. The proposed new route would allow the path to run closer…
In May 2015, as the highlight of a social project for the Werner-von-Siemens School in Bochum, Germany, 45 7th grade children, 12 students and 5 teachers undertook a Jurassic Coast hike along Britain’s South West Coast Path from Swanage to Exeter. After six months of weekly lessons learning about England (in English!), fitness preparation in…
My photographic love affair with the Jurassic Coast started back in 2004. At the time I was living in the Midlands and my portfolio consisted largely of the Peak District and North Wales. My first visit came in the form of a four day venture with the aim of starting a Dorset Coast portfolio. During…
#lovethejurassiccoast… Let me count the ways. It’s the view of Lyme Bay from the A35, once the tummy twisting vista of a holiday about to start, now the wonderful signal of arriving home. It’s the smell of the slippery grey clays leaching from the cliffs at Seatown. It’s the look on a child’s face when…
I grew up on the coast, a 15 minute stroll from a long white sandy beach where you could walk your dog, say g’day to the five other people you saw and have a dip in 25 degree water at 7.30 on a summer’s evening. So it is with a sense of wry amusement that…
“It’s all wrong!” goes the favoured response of the pedant to the film Jurassic World. “Those are Cretaceous dinosaurs! And where are their feathers? And why are the velociraptors so BIG? They should be the size of turkeys!” and so on and so forth. All completely valid, obviously, but rather missing the point of a…
Continued from Part 1. A few years later our daughter Martha was born, and I revisited all my childhood haunts along the coast with my family. I was now involved in a Duke of Edinburgh group in Corfe Castle where my role would become a leader for children taking their Bronze level award. I had…
When I was three years old I was lucky enough to have parents who would regularly take me and my brother to Kimmeridge for a day on the beach. While there my activities would include picnics, kite flying, fossil hunting, general mucking around and beach combing. I remember many visits to all the Jurassic Coast…