Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Days 3/4 (Mon 10th – Tue 11th May 2021)
With an early start from Glastonbury, we arrived on the south coast. We were booked onto a site for two nights, near to Charmouth, but we decided to visit the coast first, with a temporary halt at West Bay, just south of Bridport.
West Bay
We wandered along the beach and around the village. The harbour at West Bay is actually called Bridport Harbour and the beach, Bridport Beach.
The beach to the east in one of the Jurassic Coast cliffs, which regularly yield fossils when the cliffs, which are made primarily of shale, (no more than compressed mud really), are eroded by the sea. The walk along the beach was quite dramatic.
We walked along the sea front to the west of the village as far as we were able to go, but after about 500 yards, the path was barred as the sea defences had been damaged and there was potential danger from falling rocks.
Returning to West Bay, we enjoyed a Cornish Pastie, consumed on a bench by the harbour, under the watchful eye of a local Baguette Bandit, before returning to Fufu and moving on to Charmouth.
A few years ago, I was eating my lunch, a pre-prepared cheese baguette, at Mont San Michel in Normandy, when on a high terrace, it was stolen as I was taking a bite, by a Herring Gull. This was somewhat of a shock and I am convinced that they have been following me around ever since.
Charmouth
Moving on to Charmouth, we stayed at Newlands Holiday Park, where we were booked in for two nights. Charmouth is another pleasant village, downhill from the site.
On the way into the village we passed the Abbot’s House, where it is claimed that both Catharine of Aragon and King Charles II have stayed.
Charmouth is situated on the Dorset Jurassic Coast and again, there are fossils to be found in the shale and on the beach.
"See-u-Later" 