Showing posts with label Jurassic coast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jurassic coast. Show all posts

May 12, 2014

Isle of Wight and Jurassic Coast

So the journey continues...
The Isle of Wight is said to be the sunniest place in the whole of UK, and I can confirm that. As we only had one evening and the following morning to explore the island, we did most driving around. Of course we were tourists, so we visit The Needles. Three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea and furthest out is a lighthouse that was built already in 1859. From the same location you can visit an old rocket testing center and 2 old artillery gun batteries. Awesome place to visit!
In the afternoon we were back to the bigger island, UK mainland, and now took a drive along the Jurassic coast down to The Durdle Door and Weymouth. The Durdle door being an natural limestone arch. Very impressive sight.
The whole southern coastline is impressive with its steep cliffs and wildlife!
The flowing day, on the way home, there were still two places that we wanted/had to visit. First being a lighthouse far out of Portland, just south of Weymouth, and the second Chesil Beach.
The lighthouse itself is an awful place to be at when high tides and storms. Actually can be lethal.
The beach then, it is 29 km (18 mi) long, 200 m ( 660 ft ) wide, 15 m (50 ft) high, and a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
South coast, worth visiting over and over again!                                                             
Rapeseed

Isle of wight and chalk cliffs

The Needles

The Needles

The needles

Yarmouth, Isle of wight
 
Durdle door info

Jurassic coast near Durdle door

Durdle door

Durdle door

Near Durdle door



Portland Lighthouse

Chesil beach info

Chesil beach

Chesil beach

May 8, 2012

Road trip (South west England Part 1)

So, this was the weekend UK celebrated the 1st of May, on the 7th of May. As it is important not to give the opportunity to people to have more spare time than absolutely needed ;))
Anyhow, this meant that were had three days off! Which me and the wify spend on a road trip to south west parts (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset etc)
As you can imagin it included a lot of driving, not only because of the small roads but also as it is far far away from Sheffield. Having said that, it was definitely worth all the miles :)) The Landscape is really nice, and some parts took us back to new zeeland.

What did we see? Jurassic coast of course, which is between Exmouth and Swanage.
The Jurassic coast is a world heritage site and it is approx 153 km long, and still u can find fossils there from Triassic, jurassic, and cretaceous period which is from 90-250 millon years ago. (we searched for T-rex but didnt find it)  :) :) Between all of that we had lunch in Axminster at River Cottage cafe! Very very delicous
We saw the famous Durdle door and the white cliffs along very very long beaches.
Looking over the Durdle door was a camp site, which we at first thought was perfect but hear this; a tent spot costs 35 pound and u had to take min 2 nights!! :( :(  70 pounds for a tent place?? No way, that's horrible.. So that evening we ended up at a camp 20km towards Bridport for £20, which is still quite expensive for a tent place, but what to do when u are tired..

More to come :)) ...
The famous durdle door

Durdle door and the white cliffs

On the other side

The sea was pretty calm

Bad quality but it was fun to see the gulls chasing the buzzard

Buzzard looking at his breakfast

Buzzard