Thursday June 20th 2019

Image : West Bay Facebook Page

Dorset was shut today. Not all of it you understand, but the bit we wanted to go onto  - the beach at West Bay. We had no idea, that after a lovely drive down to Washingpool Farm near Bridport for lunch followed by a plan to sit on the beach, we'd end up in the car for a lot longer than anticipated.  Which just goes to show, in this age of internet blizzards of information, myself and the lady failed to read that from March to July, both beaches at West Bay were closed to allow for urgent coastal deence work to be undertaken. 44,000 tonnes of rock from Scotland have been buried in the beach. The beach is now being rolled back onto the rocks, in the hope that winter storms no longer pound the buildings behind. Only time will tell. But it was nice being back in Dorset, nonetheless as  this was our first trip since October. Given that for nearly a decade I almost lived down here, time is a strange master.