Chesil Beach, Dorset

We are actually driving back to the coast having picked up my camera

As usual in many of our country lanes there are passing places as lanes only wide enough for one vehicle

If you look carefully you can just see Chesil Beach (part of The Jurassic Coast) in centre of picture

Another passing place

Chesil Bank is a strip of beach between inland waters and the English Channel

Here we see the 14th century St. Catherine's Chapel standing solitary upon a hill that dominates the village of Abbotsbury

We access the beach via. a walk board, the only point of access to this part of the coast

(Don't want to confuse you but we did visit the Sub-tropical gardens first (another post)) and it is now early evening 

Chesil Beach is 18 miles long and runs from West Bay to Portland

So different looking into the evening sun

to looking away from it

This strip of beach is far wider than it looks from up on the the hill

A good view of Portland on the horizon

I really like the way the countryside meets the shore line and one can see the sheep grazing so close to the sea

We have walked a couple of miles already

and although we are tired after a morning walking around the Swannery and afternoon around the tropical gardens,  we want to walk as far as we can here even though it is heavy going on large shingle and not flat

The strip of beach continues into Weymouth 8 miles away but during Summer months we are not allowed to walk any further than the red sign ahead so as not to disturb the nesting birds who often lay their eggs on the beach

We are now at the other side of the Swannery and the white patch upper left top are the colony of swans

so we turn around

walking back towards the sun and the exit walk board

this has been a very pleasant walk