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
